A29368:455
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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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 Gen. 18.21. I will go down now, and see whether they ⟨p. 159⟩have done altogether according to the cry of it, which is come unto me, and if not, I will know: And Again, Gen. 22.12. Lay not thine hand upon the Lad, neither do any thing unto him, for now I know that thou fearest God; speaking after the manner of men. And Again, Hosea 6.4. O Ephraim what shall I do unto thee, O Judah what shall I do unto thee; And in Hosea 11.8. How shall I give thee up O Ephraim, how shall I deliver thee Israel, how shall I make thee as Admah, how shall I set thee as Zeboim: Here are four Hows in our Translation, though but two in the Hebrew, How shall I give thee up, How shall I deliver thee, How shall I make thee as Admah. How shall I set thee as Zeboim: As if the Lord, (to speak after the manner of men) were in a great strait, and knew not what to do, was not resolved what to do; So I say though God is always resolved in himself, yet he seems to us to be at a stand sometimes, whether he shall show mercy or no.
First, Though God is alwaies 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 shew mercy to them or not; as you may see Exod. 33.5