A29368:403
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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
These are the lessons, which the rod teacheth.
Secondly, If you would know further what the Rod teacheth; I answer Negatively:
First, The Rod doth not teach you any skill or knowledge of its own, but the spirit of the Lord in the Rod that teacheth, Blessed is the man that thou chastenest, and teachest him out of thy law, Psalm 94.12. By the Rod a man shall see that presented to him, which lay hid before; when the glass is shaken you see that sand, which you could hardly, or not at all perceive before; so when a man is shaken by affliction, his sins are discovered to him; and a sight of sin is the first step to Conversion.
First, The Rod doth not teach you any skill or knowledge of its own, but the spirit of the Lord in the Rod that teacheth, Blessed is the man that thou chastnest, and teachest him out of thy law, Psalm 94.12. By the Rod a man shall see that presented to him, which lay hid before; when the glass is shaken you see that sand, which you could hardly, or not at all perceive before; so when a man is shaken by affliction, his sins are discovered to him; and a sight of sin is the first step to Conversion.