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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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All that I shall say for Application, is this; It is our true interest, and best wisdom, when the Rod comes, to hear the rod, and who hath appointed it, as hath been proved.
O then that men were wise, and did understand it in this day. O England, England, the Rod is in thy streets at this time, certainly there is a swinging Rod hangs over this Nation: O England what shall I say unto thee, but what the Prophet saith here; Hear ye the Rod, and who hath appointed it: O London Hear thou the Rod, and who hath appointed it, O Norwich Hear thou the Rod, and who hath appointed it, O Yarmouth hear thou the Rod, and who hath appointed it, for you shall thereby honour God, and strengthen your own faith, you shall be able to keep silence in the evil day; you shall be made more fit to pray, and the rod will be sooner removed from you. Therefore as you desire that God may have the honour of all his dispensations, and that your faith may be strengthened, and that you may be enabled to be silent in an evil day; then ⟨p. 151⟩hear the rod, and who hath appointed it.
O then that men were wise, and did understand it in this day. O England, England, the Rod is in thy streets at this time, certainly there is a swinging Rod hangs over this Nation: O England what shall I say unto thee, but what the Prophet saith here; Hear ye the Rod, and who hath appointed it: O London Hear thou the Rod, and who hath appointed it, O Norwich Hear thou the Rod, and who hath appointed it, O Yarmouth hear thou the Rod, and who hath appointed it, for you shall thereby honour God, and strengthen your own faith, you shall be able to keep silence in the evil day; you shall be made more fit to pray, and the rod will be sooner removed from you. Therefore as you desire that God may have the honour of all his dispensations, and that your faith may be strengthened, and that you may be inabled to be silent in an evil day; then ⟨p. 151⟩hear the rod, and who hath appointed it.