A29368:381
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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Thirdly, There is much folly bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of Correction bringeth it out saith Solomon, and therefore God doth sometimes correct his people because of their folly.
Why do School-Masters use the Rod but only to make children learn their lessons; if they would learn without, he would not use the Rod; and why doth God use the Rod with his people but to learn them their lessons; for these reasons therefore doth God use the rod with his people.
But you will say; doth not God use the Rod with the wicked too, do not they come under the rod as well as the righteous.
I answer: Solomon saith the Rod is for the ⟨p. 135⟩back of the fool, and wicked men are called sols in Scripture, God doth sometimes chastise the Godly by the wicked, the wicked are the rod in Gods hand, and sometimes again, God doth punish wicked men by the Saints, the Saints being the rod in Gods hand: Sometimes I say wicked men are the rod for the Godly: