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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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I answer, you know how it is with a tender Father, that hath a rebellious Child; saith the Father, I will thrust him ⟨p. 160⟩out of doors, I will utterly cast him off, I have often admonished him, and threatened him, and corrected him, and yet he is never the better, therefore I am resolved even to turn him out of doors; I but then he reflects, and thinks again, He is my child, he is the Son of my bowels, how shall I, how can I give him up, how can I turn him out of doors? why now God is more tender to his Children, than any Father can be to his Children, and therefore his being at a stand doth speak out, and declare his bowels to his people: His bowels are at work whilst their sins provoke him; One while he looks upon their sins, and another while he looks upon Christs satisfaction; one while he hears the Law call Justice, Justice, another while he hears Christ cry Mercy, Mercy; There is Justice and mercy both in God, that he may have the honour of both, and therefore God seems to be at a stand sometimes; says God, These are my people, and if I punish them the enemies will reproach me, and I shall be dishonoured, and they are my people still for all their sinning against me, and thus God seems to be at a stand.
I answer, you know how it is with a tender Father, that hath a rebellious Child; saith the Father, I will thrust him ⟨p. 160⟩out of doors, I will utterly cast him off, I have often admonished him, and threatned him, and corrected him, and yet he is never the better, therefore I am resolved even to turn him out of doors; I but then he reflects, and thinks again, He is my child, he is the Son of my bowels, how shall I, how can I give him up, how can I turn him out of doors? why now God is more tender to his Children, than any Father can be to his Children, and therefore his being at a stand doth speak out, and declare his bowels to his people: His bowels are at work whilst their sins provoke him; One while he looks upon their sins, and another while he looks upon Christs satisfaction; one while he hears the Law call Justice, Justice, another while he hears Christ cry Mercy, Mercy; There is Justice and mercy both in God, that he may have the honour of both, and therefore God seems to be at a stand sometimes; saies God, These are my people, and if I punish them the enemies will reproach me, and I shall be dishonoured, and they are my people still for all their sinning against me, and thus God seems to be at a stand.