A29368:471
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 further, when may God be said to go forth against a Nation or people in his anger.
First, For answer you may know it by Gods dispensations, if his dispensations do bespeak so much, and do plainly declare that God is going forth against a Nation or people, then you may be sure that he is ⟨p. 165⟩resolved to go forth in his anger: and therefore
First, Observe when a Judgement comes that is extraordinary, then the Lord is gone out against that people: The Lord is known by the Judgements, which he executeth, the wicked is snared in the work of his own hands, Psal. 9.16.
Secondly, Look when God restrains prayer from a people, when he knocks off, and draws off the hearts of his children from praying for such a people, then is God certainly come out against them in his wrath.