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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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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.
Secondly, You have an exhortation to hear the voice of the Rod. Hear ye the rod and who hath appointed it.
Secondly, You have en exhortation to hear the voice of the Rod. Hear ye the rod and who hath appointed it.
Thirdly, You have an Argument to press you so to do; It is your wisdom, the man of wisdom shall see thy name. The Lords voice crieth unto the City, that is unto Samaria, and Jerusalem, the Chief Cities: ⟨p. 130⟩And the man of wisdom shall see thy name: The dispensations of God in the way of his mercy or Justice are his name: As a man is known by his name, so God is known by his dispensations, which though they be dark to the world, yet the man of wisdom shall see them and discern them: Therefore hear ye the Rod, and who hath appointed it the Rod; that is the Rod of Correction, Now there is
Thirdly, You have an Argument to press you so to do; It is your wisdom, the man of wisdom shall see thy name. The Lords voice cryeth unto the City, that is unto Samaria, and Jerusalem, the Chief Cities: ⟨p. 130⟩And the man of wisdom shall see thy name: The dispensations of God in the way of his mercy or Justice are his name: As a man is known by his name, so God is known by his dispensations, which though they be dark to the world, yet the man of wisdom shall see them and discern them: Therefore hear ye the Rod, and who hath appointed it the Rod; that is the Rod of Correction, Now there is
First, The Rod of power and dignity, He shall send his rod out of Zion.