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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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Secondly, Though it be dreadful and terrible, yet it is not so dreadful to the people of God as to others.
First, Though God be angry with his own people; yet it is but little, in comparison to what he is with others; As in Zach. 1.2. The Lord was sore displeased with your Fathers, and at the 12. verse, there it is said God had indignation against them threescore and ten years, and then at the 15. verse, And I am very sore displeased with the Heathen that are at ease, for I was but a little displeased, and they helped forward the affliction: Here you see God was greatly displeased with the ⟨p. 169⟩Heathen, and but little displeased against his people; his displeasure is but little to them, in comparison with what it is to others.
Secondly, Though God be angry with his own people, yet his anger is their friend. If a man be my friend, not only his purse is my friend, but his sword also, if I have occasion; so if God be my friend, not only his love is my friend, but his anger too, but it is not so with the wicked.