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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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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.
Again, This is that which will make all things easy unto you, though they be never so hard in themselves; whereas the contrary will make all things hard though never so easy: If I am to do a work or a service for one: why, though the work be never so hard of it self, yet love will make it easy; many complain and say they cannot profit by the Ordinances: why, what is the reason? It is for want of love to them; there are jars and contentions between friend and friend, between this man and the other man; why, it is for want of love: Love would make all things easy for you, though never so hard. Now put all these things together, and then you may see, what a pleasant and profitable thing it is, for brethren to dwell together in unity, to love, to unite, to live in unity one with another.
Again, This is that which will make all things easie unto you, though they be never so hard in themselves; whereas the contrary will make all things hard though never so easie: If I am to do a work or a service for one: why, though the work be never so hard of it self, yet love will make it easie; many complain and say they cannot profit by the Ordinances: why, what is the reason? It is for want of love to them; there are jarrs and contentions between friend and friend, between this man and the other man; why, it is for want of love: Love would make all things easie for you, though never so hard. Now put all these things together, and then you may see, what a pleasant and profitable thing it is, for brethren to dwell together in unity, to love, to unite, to live in unity one with another.
Well then if this be so, why should we not all abound in it? why do not we love and agree one with another, if it be so good and profitable as we have heard, then let us all agree together.
But it may be some will say, we do live together in love and unity, and we are united one to another, But