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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, 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.
Fifthly, Another is whispering, a whisperer separateth true friends, Pro. 16.28. But now if any one should come to me, and tell me any thing against a brother, I would not believe the whisperer, till I had spoken with the other; for a cause can never be truly known, nor judged of, till both parties have been heard speak: Thus you may see the five things that hinder love, that is Pride, Passion, Strangeness, designing one upon another, and hearkening unto whisperers. Now as you desire to live in love and unity, observe these things, and take heed of them.
Fifthly, Another is whispering, a whisperer separateth true friends, Pro. 16.28. But now if any one should come to me, and tell me any thing against a brother, I would not believe the whisperer, till I had spoken with the other; for a cause can never be truly known, nor judged of, till both parties have been heard speak: Thus you may see the five things that hinder love, that is Pride, Passion, Strangeness, designing one upon another, and hearkning unto whisperers. Now as you desire to live in love and unity, observe these things, and take heed of them.
Tenthly, Let me say to you (holy and beloved brethren) if you would love one another, then forgive one another, and live more unto God who loveth you, live more to God, lest he should turn his love to hatred and wrath against you.