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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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Secondly, As it is pleasant and delightful, so it is a profitable good: Behold how good a thing it is, it is very profitable. ⟨p. 109⟩For is it not profitable for the dew to fall upon Hermon, and upon the hills of Zion, to make them fruitful? Why, such is the dew of holy agreement, when it falls upon the hearts of men: And this doth make men increase, and multiply in the Church, and to be fruitful in good works; the Psalmist saith, God commandeth his blessing; and when God blesseth, we shall certainly increase and multiply; and this I say did increase the Church, and hereby are the Saints both increased and delighted by the blessing of God on them, they do increase in things that are good, and profitable; and this was the thing which Christ prayed for, yea prayed for again and again; yea as I said it is the great thing which Christ hath commanded: A new command, &c. Is it not therefore good and profitable to love one another?
Secondly, As it is pleasant and delightful, so it is a profitable good: Behold how good a thing it is, it is very profitable. ⟨p. 109⟩For is it not profitable for the dew to fall upon Hermon, and upon the hills of Zion, to make them fruitfull? Why, such is the dew of holy agreement, when it falls upon the hearts of men: And this doth make men increase, and multiply in the Church, and to be fruitful in good works; the Psalmist saith, God commandeth his blessing; and when God blesseth, we shall certainly increase and multiply; and this I say did increase the Church, and hereby are the Saints both increased and delighted by the blessing of God on them, they do increase in things that are good, and profitable; and this was the thing which Christ prayed for, yea prayed for again and again; yea as I said it is the great thing which Christ hath commanded: A new command, &c. Is it not therefore good and profitable to love one another?
Again, This is the mercy and the grace that is promised, specially in the latter times glorious things are spoken of, and promised to the last days; and this is one of those things which are promised, and if so, it is then certainly good, and profitable.