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The freeness of the grace and love of God to believers discovered in reference…
The freeness of the grace and love of God to believers discovered in reference to 1. their services and suffering, 2. their consolations, and 3. their salvation and eternal glory : together with the excellency of the fear of God, the goodness and pleasantness of brotherly love, the wisdom of hearing the voice of the rod, repentance the only way to prevent judgements / delivered in several sermons by the late reverend and faithful minister of Christ, Mr. William Bridge ...The freeness of the grace and love of God to believers discovered in reference to 1. their services and suffering, 2. their consolations, and 3. their salvation and eternal glory : together with the excellency of the fear of God, the goodness and pleasantness of brotherly love, the wisdom of hearing the voice of the rod, repentance the only way to prevent judgements / delivered in several sermons by the late reverend and faithful minister of Christ, Mr. William Bridg ...
London: printed for Nath. Crouch, 1671
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Again consider, That God cannot only destroy the body, but soul and body too. Therefore O man fear him that can destroy both body and soul when he will in Hell fire.
Thus now if you would have your fear strengthened, then study these things, consider and meditate upon these things. But yet a little further
If you would strengthen your fear of God more and more, then labour after more Communion with him now, in this world while you are here, we use to say Too much familiarity breeds contempt, but here it is not so, for by familiarity and communion with God, we shall have more sweetness, and more delight in his ways, more strength in his service, more comfort in our afflictions: If you would therefore have these advantages, then labour to walk more close with God, and to have more communion with him; labour therefore I say to have more communion with God, if you would fear him more and more: The greater a person is here on Earth (as I told you before) the more we fear him, and the nearer he is in relation to us, the more we reverence him.
If you would strengthen your fear of God more and more, then labour after more Communion with him now, in this world while you are here, we use to say Too much familiarity breeds contempt, but here it is not so, for by familiarity and communion with God, we shall have more sweetness, and more delight in his wayes, more strength in his service, more comfort in our afflictions: If you would therefore have these advantages, then labour to walk more close with God, and to have more communion with him; labour therefore I say to have more communion with God, if you would fear him more and more: The greater a person is here on Earth (as I told you before) the more we fear him, and the nearer he is in relation to us, the more we reverence him.