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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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Thirdly, In the matter of our Practice, read the 3. verse of this Chapter, For I say through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith. Thus you see how we should act, as to our Judgements, Affections, and Practices, one toward another.
But you will say if this be so, then how much is our love wanting one toward another, but what shall we do, that our love to one another may be more knit together; what shall we do that we may advance, and rise to this holy agreement, both in our own hearts and others?
For answer hereunto, take these directions.
First, Be serious in this work, and lay aside the former hinderances of your love, and your former divisions; and let not any of you say, this is the fault, and that is the fault, and such a one is the cause of it, and such a one is the occasion of it: No, but lay the fault on your selves, lay it upon your selves, and not upon others, and say, It is I, the Lord knows it is I; it is I that have raised this storm; and say as David, I have sinned, I have sinned. Let not your former divisions be forgotten, but take warning by them; lay not the fault I say upon others, but upon your selves, and acknowledge it and say; It is I, I Lord that have sinned. And,