A29368:417
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, When the Lord doth visit the transgressions of his people with a Rod, it is their duty to hear what the Rod saith; for as you hear, Gods Rod is a teaching Rod; and therefore when the Rod comes, it is your duty to lay your car close to the rod, to hear what it says; for otherwise you will be found despisers of its message. If a King send his Ambassador to speak and treat with another, and he turns his ear from him, and will not hear him; why, will not he be found a despiser of the message? Now the Rod is a Messenger, an Ambassador, and it comes from Heaven; if you will ⟨p. 147⟩not hear it, you despise the message of the Rod; not hearing is despising, therefore when the Rod comes, hear the message of it, my son despise not the chastening of the Almighty, saith Solomon, Prov. 3.11.
First, When the Lord doth visit the transgressions of his people with a Rod, it is their duty to hear what the Rod saith; for as you hear, Gods Rod is a teaching Rod; and therefore when the Rod comes, it is your duty to lay your car close to the rod, to hear what it says; for otherwise you will be found despisers of its message. If a King send his Ambassadour to speak and treat with another, and he turns his ear from him, and will not hear him; why, will not he be found a despiser of the message? Now the Rod is a Messenger, an Ambassadour, and it comes from Heaven; if you will ⟨p. 147⟩not hear it, you despise the message of the Rod; not hearing is despising, therefore when the Rod comes, hear the message of it, my son despise not the chastening of the Almighty, saith Solomon, Prov. 3.11.
Secondly, It is your duty to hear the Rod, and also to consider who hath appointed it; not only to hear the Instrument, but the Author also whereby the Rod is acted and guided: For