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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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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.
Fifthly, If after all this there do remain division among you, by reason of your judgements, or opinions; then remember the Apostles rule, and be sure to walk by it: for saith he (as we instanced before) Let no man think more highly of himself than he ought to think, but to think soberly; as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith. The Apostle directs us, to live humbly, and walk meekly one toward another; and not to be rash, or to think highly of our selves. But further;
Sixthly, If we would live in love and ⟨p. 122⟩unity, then let us look upon other mens infirmities in conjunction with their excellencies, and their excellencies in conjunction with their infirmities; and thereby the one will take away or hide the other: Let us not pore only upon a mans infirmities, upon his Euts as I may say; he is a godly man but —: therefore if you would agree, join his infirmities and his excellencies together, and then look upon him.
Sixthly, If we would live in love and ⟨p. 122⟩unity, then let us look upon other mens infirmities in conjunction with their excellencies, and their excellencies in conjunction with their infirmities; and thereby the one will take away or hide the other: Let us not pore only upon a mans infirmities, upon his Euts as I may say; he is a godly man but —: therefore if you would agree, joyn his infirmities and his excellencies together, and then look upon him.