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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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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 ⟨p. 132⟩pieces: And God doth sometimes warn people by his word, and sometime by his works and dispensations, Ezek. 33.2. Son of man speak unto the Children of thy people and say unto them, if I bring a sword upon the Land, &c. And at the 7. verse he applies it. So saith he, Thou O Son of man I have set thee for a watchman, unto the house of Israel; therefore thou shall hear the word from my mouth, and warn them from me; would you know what this warning is, why it is a warning by the word,
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 peices which he will discharg in due time, but he will first discharg his warning ⟨p. 132⟩peices: And God doth sometimes warn people by his word, and sometime by his works and dispensations, Ezek. 33.2. Son of man speak unto the Children of thy people and say unto them, if I bring a sword upon the Land, &c. And at the 7. verse he applies it. So saith he, Thou O Son of man I have set thee for a watchman, unto the house of Israel; therefore thou shall hear the word from my mouth, and warn them from me; would you know what this warning is, why it is a warning by the word,
Sometimes God warns his people by his works and dispensations, by his Judgements upon others, and by his Afflictions upon themselves, he brings a lesser Judgement to prevent a greater; it is with the works of God as it with his word: Now God doth sometimes hew down men by the word, yea he hews them down by the Ministry of the word; there is a time when God will hew down sinners by the Ministry of the word, and lays them upon the ground a drying (as I may say) for Hell, before they come there;