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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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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; Matt. 3. The tree that bringeth not forth fruit, is hewn down and cast into the fire, Hosea. 6.5. Therefore I have hewed them by the Prophets, I have slain them by the words of my mouth, &c. There is a time of hewing down, a time ⟨p. 133⟩when God will hew men down by the ministry of the word, and as he doth thus by his word, so he doth the same also by his works and dispensations; and though God may, and can destroy a people at once, yet he will not siese upon them before he warn them: that is the first proposition.
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; Matt. 3. The tree that bringeth not forth fruit, is hewn down and cast into the fire, Hosea. 6.5. Therefore I have hewed them by the Prophets, I have slain them by the words of my mouth, &c. There is a time of hewing down, a time ⟨p. 133⟩when God will hew men down by the ministry of the word, and as he doth thus by his word, so he doth the same also by his works and dispensations; and though God may, and can destroy a people at once, yet he will not siese upon them before he warn them: that is the first proprosition.