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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, Consider O man whether you do not settle your judgement upon the judgement, or opinion of any, or upon the knowledge of another: Hast thou faith saith the Apostle, have it to thy self before God; Rom. 14.22. But is not a man then to confess his faith before others, when he is called to it? Yes, But the Apostle speaks here of lesser things; if thou hast faith have it to thy self in little disputable things; and do not rely upon others, but look to thy self, and give things a time; in due time God will reveal, saith the Apostle.
Thirdly, if you desire this holy agreement, then do what you can to keep union in the Ministry, and between the Ministry. It was not for nothing that our Saviour prayed, John 17.11, 21. Holy ⟨p. 121⟩Father keep through thine own name, those whom thou hast given me, that they may be one as we are; That they all may be one, as thou Father art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us. It is not good for people to cry, I am for Paul, and I am for Apollo, and I am for Cephas, and the like, this is the way to make division; therefore do all you can to live in love and unity; for love is of God, and the contrary is of the Devil.
Fourthly, Take heed of disputation, what have we got this many years by disputation? those that are weak, are sooner brought in by humiliation, than by Disputation.