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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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Secondly, God will be sure to punish those that are the Ringleaders of Rebellion in a Nation: Now great Cities and Towns if they are not good, are ringleaders to other Towns to do evil: Even as a great Oak, which drops upon the lesser trees under him, spoils their growth, and corrupts them: And so if a man be rich, and not good, he drops upon others, and spoils others: So I say, great Towns if not good, spoil and corrupt the lesser Towns and Villages; as if they be good, they are an help and an encouragement to others in goodness; therefore the Lords voice crieth unto the Cities; and they should all hear the rod, and who hath appointed it: that is the fourth proposition. The fifth and main followeth, that
Secondly, God will be sure to punish those that are the Ringleaders of Rebellion in a Nation: Now great Cities and Towns if they are not good, are ringleaders to other Towns to do evil: Even as a great Oke, which drops upon the lesser trees under him, spoils their growth, and corrupts them: And so if a man be rich, and not good, he drops upon others, and spoiles others: So I say, great Towns if not good, spoyl and corrupt the lesser Towns and Villages; as if they be good, they are an help and an encouragement to others in goodness; therefore the Lords voice cryeth unto the Cities; and they should all hear the rod, and who hath appointed it: that is the fourth proposition. The fifth and main followeth, that
Fifthly, When the Lord doth visit the transgressions of his people with a Rod, it is their true interest, and best wisdom ⟨p. 146⟩to hear the Rod, and who hath appointed it.
There are three things in this proposition.