A29368:447
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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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.
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 challeng 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.
From hence then I take up this Observation or Doctrine.
That when God is resolved to come out against a Nation or people, it is their duty to prepare to meet with God.