A29368:444
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.
Therefore this will I do unto thee O Israel, and because I will do this unto thee, prepare to neet thy God O Israel.
In these words you have a double Inference which God makes,
First, Therefore thus will I do unto thee, I have been a long time striving with you (as if he should say) and I have been at a stand whether I should punish you or not, yet have ye not returned ⟨p. 157⟩unto me, therefore now I am resolved, thus will I do unto thee. And then
Secondly, Now I am resolved, prepare to meet thy God O Israel, therefore do thou prepare to meet thy God O Israel: I do not send you a challenge saith God, that you should prepare to meet with your God to fight with him, or to resist him, not to meet God in his anger, and to oppose him, no; but prepare to meet thy God, by preventing his Judgements, with your Repentance, and returning unto him. If a man be coming to your house, and you go out to meet him, why then you prevent him by meeting of him; So when we prevent Gods Judgements, by our Repentance, we are said to meet with God.