A29368:340
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.
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.
Thirdly, Another enemy to love is strangeness, strangeness ends in enmity; when brethren and friends grow strangers one to another, then they surmise things one of another; and that destroys love and unity.
Fourthly, Another is designing one against ⟨p. 124⟩another; true love knows no designs upon others; no man can endure to have designs laid against him; designing causeth anger, enmity and hatred, and hinders true love one toward another.