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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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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 ⟨p. 166⟩oppression, and great superstition, and Idolatry, and God did not only afflict them for these sins but for others too, and therefore you find in the 7. verse, I have with held the rain from you, and have caused it to rain upon one City, and not upon another, Here was distinction of Judgments according to their several sins: And so at the 11. verse. I have overthrown you, as God overthrew Sodom, and Gomorrah, and you were as firebrands plucked out of the burning, &c. God exercised them with several Afflictions, and they were distinguishing afflictions too, and yet they were incorrigible; God tells them, that he had afflicted them with cleanness of teeth, and want of rain, and yet have they not returned unto me saith the Lord, therefore thus will I do unto thee, &c. Thus you see what distinguishing afflictions they were exercised with, I have sent the Pestilence among you, yet have ye not returned unto me saith the Lord; and yet after all these sore strokes, they still remained incorrigible, and therefore God was resolved to go forth against them in his wrath, and so I have done with the second General.
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 incorrigableness 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