A29368:458
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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But you will say, when may God seem to be at a stand, and not to be resolved ⟨p. 161⟩what to do, speaking after the manner of men.
I answer first, when the Saints and Ministers of God, know not what is best to be done in regard of the times, then is God at a stand, For saith the Lord, shall I do any thing, and not reveal it to my servants the Prophets: Therefore I say when the Saints, and Servants, and Ministers of God are at a stand, and know not what to do, then God seems to be at a stand.
Secondly, When the Dispensations of God, go forward, and backward, then the Lord seems to be at a stand; when a man goes out of his house about his business, and goes forward and backward in the street, you will say, that man is not well resolved what to do, nor which way to go; And thus it seems to be sometimes with God, his dispensations in the world go forward, and backward, and this is the time, that God is, as it were at a stand, whether he shall show mercy or no; And so I have done with the first general.
Secondly, When the Dispensations of God, go forward, and backward, then the Lord seems to be at a stand; when a man goes out of his house about his business, and goes forward and backward in the street, you will say, that man is not well resolved what to do, nor which way to go; And thus it seems to be sometimes with God, his dipensations in the world go forward, and backward, and this is the time, that God is, as it were at a stand, whether he shall shew mercy or no; And so I have done with the first general.