A29368:338
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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
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.
First, Pride, A proud man is much given to contention.
Secondly, Passion, For though a man dislikes, and is sorry for what he hath done in his passion, when it is over, and though what he doth in his passion be one thing, and what he doth in his serious consideration is another thing; yet we are to take great heed of passion.