A29368:427
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.
But you will say, what shall we do that we may hear the Rod, and who hath appointed it; we do confess that there is a smart Rod upon the back of this Nation, and upon the back of our families, but what shall we do that we may hear the Rod, and who hath appointed it.
I Answer, First, Stand, and look upon the Rod, and you will find two things especially in the Rod; 1. Your Sin, and 2. Gods Design.
As for your sin, look what sin that is, which God holds before your face, before your conscience, all the time he is striking of you with the Rod, that is the sin he strikes you for. If a Dog worry a sheep, you commonly go and beat the Dog in the face of the worried Sheep, that the Dog may thereby know and understand for what he is beaten: So when the Lord comes, and holds out one sin for you to look on, especially, then you may be sure, the Rod comes upon you for that sin.
Again, Look what sin that is, which doth naturally bring the Rod, that is the cause of it: As for example, If a man be ⟨p. 152⟩