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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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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⟩drunk, and do thereby bring himself into a fever, will you not say that drunkenness was the cause of it?
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⟩drunk, and do thereby bring himself into a feavor, will you not say that drunkenness was the cause of it?
Again, Look what sin that is, which is most like the Rod of all others, that sin is that which brings the Rod; as for example, Suppose the Rod of this Nation be decay of Trading; may we not think, that some Stolen wedge of Gold is in this Nation, which is the cause of this Rod, because it is like it: Or suppose the Rod of this Nation be, the Lords forsaking of it; may we not think that Apostasy is the cause of it, because it is like it; therefore if you would hear the Rod, and who hath appointed it, then observe what sin that is which is the cause of it. But
Again, Look what sin that is, which is most like the Rod of all others, that sin is that which brings the Rod; as for example, Suppose the Rod of this Nation be decay of Trading; may we not think, that some Stoln wedg of Gold is in this Nation, which is the cause of this Rod, because it is like it: Or suppose the Rod of this Nation be, the Lords forsaking of it; may we not think that Apostacy is the cause of it, because it is like it; therefore if you would hear the Rod, and who hath appointed it, then observe what sin that is which is the cause of it. But