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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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Secondly, When God smites his own people, he deals with them in the way of rod.
Thirdly, That Gods Rod is a teaching Rod.
Fourthly, That the message of the Rod is commonly sent to the great Cities, and to the great Towns of a Nation or people.
Fifthly, when God smites his own people with the rod, it is their best wisdom and their duty to hear the rod, and who hath appointed it,
First, Though God consumes a Nation at once, and destroys a Nation at once at last; Yet he still doth, and will, warn a people before he destroys them, God will not steal upon a people with his Judgments, but he first warns them, before he consumes them: he hath his murdering pieces which he will discharge in due time, but he will first discharge his warning