A29368:297
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, Is it not good and profitable for a man to know that he is a child of God, and that he hath an interest in Christ? Why, look into 1 John 3.14. We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren: There is a day of death, of natural death, whereby man shall pass from life to death; and there is likewise a time of spiritual life; when a man passeth from death to life. Now ⟨p. 111⟩how shall I know whether I am passed from death to life? Why, if I love the brethren. Yea saith Christ, Hereby shall all know that you are my disciples, if you love one another; not only your selves shall know it, but others shall know it also; and is it not then very good, and profitable? For hereby you shall know that your prayers are heard; and by this also you shall know that you are passed from death to life; and hereby you shall not only know your selves to be Christs disciples, but others shall know it also: and if it be so, then certainly it must be good and profitable.
Again, This will give a relish and a savour to all your enjoyments; it is the salt of all your comforts: Have salt in your selves, and have peace one with another.
Again, This will give a relish and a savour to all your injoyments; it is the salt of all your comforts: Have salt in your selves, and have peace one with another.
Although our condition be never so prosperous, yet if we cannot agree among our selves, if love and peace be wanting, that sours all the rest; and though the ordinances be never so sweet, and our privileges never so many, yet if we be not united together in love, all is made sour; this is that which sours all our enjoyments, the want of love, and agreement, for that gives a relish to all our enjoyments when we have it.