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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, It is a very dreadful thing to meet with God in the way of his anger, who may abide the day of his wrath? It is a fearful thing saith the Apostle, to fall into the hand of the living God, Heb. 10.31. For our God is a consuming fire, Heb. 12.29. not a warming fire: There is a warming fire in your houses, and that is very comfortable in cold weather, but there is a consuming fire also, a fire that burns down houses, and Cities, and that fire is very ⟨p. 168⟩terrible and dreadful: why our God is a consuming fire; your fire consumes your wood and coal, but it doth not consume your house, it doth not remove the Rocks: but the fire of Gods anger doth so, as you may see, Nahum. 1.5, 6. verses. The mountains quake at him, the hills melt, and the earth is burnt at his presence, yea the world, and all that dwell therein; who can stand before his indignation, and who can abide the fierceness of his anger, his fury is poured out like fire, and the rocks are thrown down by him. Thus you see it is a very dreadful thing to meet with God in the way of his anger. But
First, It is a very dreadful thing to meet with God in the way of his anger, who may abide the day of his wrath? It is a fearful thing saith the Apostle, to fall into the hand of the living God, Heb. 10.31. For our God is a consumming fire, Heb. 12.29. not a warming fire: There is a warming fire in your houses, and that is very comfortable in cold weather, but there is a consuming fire also, a fire that burns down houses, and Cities, and that fire is very ⟨p. 168⟩terrible and dreadful: why our God is a consuming fire; your fire consumes your wood and coal, but it doth not consume your house, it doth not remove the Rocks: but the fire of Gods anger doth so, as you may see, Nahum. 1.5, 6