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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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SERMON VII.
AMOS 4.12. Therefore thus will I do unto thee O Israel, and because I will do this unto thee, prepare to meet thy God O Israel.
IN this Chapter the Prophet Amos endeavours to pronounce some heavy Judgements against Gods own people Israel, wherein there are three things most considerable.
1. The Judgement Threatened. 2. The cause of the Judgement, and 3. The Inference thereupon
1. The Judgement Threatned. 2. The cause of the Judgement, and 3. The Inference thereupon
First, The Judgement Threatened, and that is in the second, and third verses; The Lord hath sworn by his holiness, that to, the days shall come upon you, that he will take you away with hooks, and your posterity with fish-hooks. As if he should say