A29368:337
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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Seventhly, If you should meet with any provocation, that may weaken your love one toward another, then be sure to take that as an opportunity to exercise your patience, and your love; when you meet a beggar in the streets full of sores, then you think you have an opportunity to exercise your charity, to give something. And so you should say, when you are provoked by another to debilitate your love and affection, you may say, why now have I an opportunity to exercise my patience. Again
Eighthly, If you will live in love and unity, then you must resolve, with the grace of God, to love, where you are not beloved; let love rise above all difficulties; labour for a Gospel spirit, to love though you are not loved: A Legal spirit ⟨p. 123⟩is a fretful spirit, saith Christ, you know not of what spirit you are of; labour I say after a Gospel spirit, yea the spirit of Christ who was as a Lamb, he opened not his mouth: if you would live in love and unity, then take heed of a Legal spirit, and labour after this Gospel spirit. Again
Ninthly, If you would agree together, and live in love and unity; then be humbled for the want of love to one another, and take heed for the future of those things that hinder your love one toward another, there are four or five of them, observe them and take heed of them.