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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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Fourthly, By hearing the Rod, and who hath appointed it, you will be led to prayer, and be brought to pray: Prayer becomes a man or woman, when they are under the Rod: Pray tell me, when the child is whipped by his Father, doth the child fall down to the Rod, and beg of the Rod to spare him; no but he falls down to him, in whose hand the Rod is, to his Master, or his Father, and cries to him O spare me, pray spare me: So be ⟨p. 149⟩not stubborn, but fall down to the Lord, when you are under the rod; and say, Lord spare me; do not say to the Rod spare me, do not cry to that when it is upon your backs; no, but see God, and observe his hand, and cry to him for help. But then
Fourthly, By hearing the Rod, and who hath appointed it, you will be led to prayer, and be brought to pray: Prayer becomes a man or woman, when they are under the Rod: Pray tell me, when the child is whipt by his Father, doth the child fall down to the Rod, and beg of the Rod to spare him; no but he falls down to him, in whose hand the Rod is, to his Master, or his Father, and cries to him O spare me, pray spare me: So be ⟨p. 149⟩not stubborn, but fall down to the Lord, when you are under the rod; and say, Lord spare me; do not say to the Rod spare me, do not cry to that when it is upon your backs; no, but see God, and observe his hand, and cry to him for help. But then
Thirdly, As it is our duty to hear the Rod, and who hath appointed it; so it is also our true interest and best wisdom to do it, because it is the way to prevent further strokes; when a child is under the Rod, and will not submit; why says the Master, since you are so stout and so stubborn, I'll try who shall be Master, you or I; and so he strikes on still, till the child cries out I have done, why then says the Master I have done too: And thus it is with us, when we are under the Rod, if we be stubborn, and refuse to hear the Rod of God, and who hath appointed it; well says God, I will try who shall be Master, you or I: what is the reason that some men go so long, so many years with the rod upon their backs; but because they have not heard the Rod, and who hath appointed it; but now when a man shall say, Lord I have done, why then says God, I have done too, O soul.