A29368:286
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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
First, It is a pleasant thing for the Saints, and people of God to agree together; ⟨p. 106⟩for the same word which is used here for pleasant, is used also in the Hebrew for a Harmony of Music, such as when they rise to the highest strains of the Viol, when the strings are all put in order, to make up a Harmony, so pleasant is it, such pleasantness is there in the Saints Agreement.
First, It is a pleasant thing for the Saints, and people of God to agree together; ⟨p. 106⟩for the same word which is used here for pleasant, is used also in the Hebrew for a Harmony of Musick, such as when they rise to the highest strains of the Violl, when the strings are all put in order, to make up a Harmony, so pleasant is it, such pleasantness is there in the Saints Agreement.
The same word is used also in the Hebrew for the pleasantness of a corn-field, when a field is clothed with corn, though it be cut down, yet it is very pleasant, O how pleasant is it, and such is the Saints agreement.
The same word in the Psalmist is used also for the sweetness of honey, and of sweet things, in opposition to bitter things; And thus you see the pleasantness of it, by its being compared to the Harmony of Music, to the corn-field, to the sweetness of honey, to the precious Ointment that ran down Aaron's beard, and to the dew that fell upon Hermon and the Hills of Zion: and all this is to discover the pleasantness, profitableness, and sweetness of the Saints Agreement. Behold how good and how pleasant it is, &c. It is a pleasant thing to behold the Sun, but it is much more pleasant to behold the Saints Agreement, and Unity among themselves.