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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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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.
Thirdly, When all things work together for the worst, then the Lord is against that people; when all things instead of working together for the best, do the contrary, and work together for the worst, then is God surely against that people.
But then 2. As you may know when God is resolved to go out against a people by his dispensations, so you may also know it by our Practices: As when God afflicts a people for crying Sins, and yet incorrigibleness follows, then doth the Lord resolve to, go against that people in wrath: As you may see in this Chapter wherein our Text is, There you find the people were guilty of great sins, of great