A29368:369
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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That when God visits the transgressions of his people with a rod, it is their best wisdom to hear the rod, and who hath appointed it; It is their true Interest and best wisdom so to do.
For the opening and clearing hereof, I shall speak to these 4. or 5. Propositions.
For the opening and cleering hereof, I shall speak to these 4. or 5. Propositions.
First, That God doth not steal upon a people with his Judgements, but he first warns them before he smites them.
Secondly, When God smites his own people, he deals with them in the way of rod.
Thirdly, That Gods Rod is a teaching Rod.