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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 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.
Thirdly, Though God be angry with his own people yet they have always free grace to fly unto, and to be their friend, but it is not thus with the wicked.
Thirdly, Though God be angry with his own people yet they have alwayes free grace to fly unto, and to be their friend, but it is not thus with the wicked.
Fourthly, Though God be angry with his own people, yet they know, or may know, that God is in Covenant with them, and that they have some sweet, and precious promises which belong to them: Nahum. 1.5, 6. Who can abide the fierceness of his wrath, &c. But look at the 7. verse. The Lord is good, a strong hold in the day of trouble, and he knoweth them that trust in him: in the worst times the people of God have promises to run unto for shelter; mark how the promise comes in here: Having showed the fierceness of ⟨p. 170⟩Gods wrath in the 5. and 6. verses, who can stand before his presence, &c. He comes in with this promise at the 7. verse, The Lord is good, and a strong hold in the day of trouble, he knoweth them that trust in him.
Fourthly, Though God be angry with his own people, yet they know, or may know, that God is in Covenant with them, and that they have some sweet, and precious promises which belong to them: