A29368:382
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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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: Isaiah 10.5. O Assyrian the rod of mine anger, and the staff of their hand is mine indignation. And sometimes the Godly, are the Rod of God, in the hand of God, for punishing the wicked, Jer. 51.19, 20. The portion of Jacob is not like them, for he is the former of all things, and Israel is the rod of his inheritance, the Lord of Hosts is his name: Thou art my battle Axe and weapons of War, for with thee will I break in pieces the Nations, and with thee will I destroy Kingdoms. So I say, as the Lord whips the saints by the wicked, so he also lashes the wicked by the Godly, they being the rod in the hand of the Lord.
I answer: Solomon saith the Rod is for the ⟨p. 135⟩