A29368:379
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, Because they are his own Children, Heb. 12.7, 8. If you endure chastisement God deals with you as with children, if you be without chastisement you are bastards and not Sons. I know no better Argument against the Church of Rome saith Luther, than this, that she reigns without the Cross. ⟨p. 134⟩If two children are fighting together, and a man comes and parts them, and strikes one of them, and not the other, you will presently imagine that the Child which he strikes is his own; and so if you ask why God useth the rod to his people, I answer, because they are his own Children. And
First, Because they are his own Children, Heb. 12.7, 8. If you indure chastisement God deals with you as with children, if you be without chastisement you are bastards and not Sons. I know no better Argument against the Church of Rome saith Luther, than this, that she reigns without the Cross. ⟨p. 134⟩If two children are fighting together, and a man comes and parts them, and strikes one of them, and not the other, you will presently imagine that the Child which he strikes is his own; and so if you ask why God useth the rod to his people, I answer, because they are his own Children. And
Secondly, As they are Children, so he loves them, and he that spareth the Rod hateth the Child: Now God doth not hate his Children, for every son that he loveth he chastiseth, God loves his children, and therefore he deals with them in the way of the Rod.