A29368:439
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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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.
Secondly, Here is the cause of the Judgment, and that is threefold,
Secondly, Here is the cause of the Judgment, and that is therefold,
First, Oppression, as at the first verse, Hear this word ye kine of Bashan, that are in the mountain of Samaria, which oppress the poor, which crush the needy, and so forth.
Secondly, Another cause is Idolatry, and Superstition; as at the 4. and 5. verses, Come ye to Bethel, and transgress at Gilgal, multiply transgression; Proclaim and publish the free offering, for this liketh you, O ye children of Israel saith the Lord God.
Thirdly, The third cause is their Incorrigibleness, as at the 6. verse, I have given you cleanness of Teeth in all your Cities, and want of bread in all your places, yet have ye not returned to me saith the Lord. And at the 7. verse, And also I have with-holden rain from you, and I have caused it to rain upon one City, and not upon another City, so two or three Cities wandered unto one City to drink water, but they were not satisfied, ⟨p. 156⟩