A29368:452
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, That if they do not come to him, and meet with him, he will then resolve to go out against them in his wrath.
Thirdly, That when God doth resolve to go out against a people in his wrath, it is their duty to prepare to meet him.
Fourthly, I shall labour to show, how a people, or family, or person, may prepare themselves to meet with God in the way of his anger, when he is going out against them.
Fourthly, I shall labour to shew, how a people, or family, or person, may prepare themselves to meet with God in the way of his anger, when he is going out against them.
First, Though God is always resolved in himself what to do with a people, yet he seems to us to be at a stand, whether he should deliver them or not, or whether he should punish them or not, whether he should show mercy to them or not; as you may see Exod. 33.5. For the Lord said unto Moses, say unto the children of Israel, ye are a stiffnecked people; I will come up into the midst of thee in a moment and consume thee; therefore now put off thy Ornaments from thee, that I may know what to do unto thee, that I may show, or make known what to do unto thee, as it is in the Hebrew: this is speaking after the manner of men; and so in