A29368:345
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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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.
11. Strengthen your love to God himself, the more love you have to God, the more will you love others.
12. If you would live in love and Unity, then you must willingly take wrong, ⟨p. 125⟩and give up your right for peace sake, and for agreement: saith Abraham to Lot, Let there be no difference between my herdmen and thy herdmen, for we are brethren; Now Abraham was the elder, and therefore it was his right to have the choice, but yet for peace sake he gives up his right, and says to Lot, Take what you will, the right hand or the left: there was a division between them, and the Canaanites were in the land, and therefore it was no good time for them to be at difference one with another: when the Canaanites were in the land, it was no good time then for good men to strive, and therefore Abraham for peace sake gives up his right: so I say for peace sake and for a holy agreement, you should willingly give up your right, and render up your own right to preserve peace and Unity one with another; O friends, love one another that you may declare your selves to be heavenly children, to be children of your heavenly Father, consider, Phil. 1.27. Only let your Conversation be as becometh the Gospel of Christ; that whether I come or be absent, I may hear of your affairs, that you stand fast in one Spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the Gospel.