A29368:460
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, 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.
The second is this: That though God seem to be at a stand sometimes, yet if men do not come unto him, and meet him. He will resolve to go forth against them, Therefore thus will I do unto thee: I have been a long time striving with you, and ⟨p. 162⟩yet have ye not returned unto me, and now I am resolved, and this is Gods Message.
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