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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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Eighthly, Though God be angry with his own people, yet they know, or may know, that God will always have a hiding place for them, and so he will never provide for others. It may be observed, that when Gods people in former Times were persecuted in one part of the world, they had always acceptance and entertainment in some other part of the world; and when they were persecuted from thence, they had still acceptance elsewhere, according to that of Christ, If they persecute you in one City, flee unto another, until the Son of Man come, Matt. 10.23. Why what is the meaning of this, but that God will always have some hiding place for his people, until Christ come again.
Eighthly, Though God be angry with his own people, yet they know, or may know, that God will alwayes have a hiding place for them, and so he will never provide for others. It may be observed, that when Gods people in former Times were persecuted in one part of the world, they had alwayes acceptance and entertaintment in some other part of the world; and when they were persecuted from thence, they had still acceptance elswhere, according to that of Christ, If they persecute you in one City, flee unto another, until the Son of Man come, Matt. 10.23. Why what is the meaning of this, but that God will alwayes have some hiding place for his people, until Christ come again.
Ninthly, Though God be angry with ⟨p. 172⟩his own people, yet they know or may know, that they are delivered from wrath to come, and they may comfort themselves thus; Tis true, that this dispensation of God towards me is in anger, but yet I am delivered from wrath to come; but now it is not so with others, the present dispensations of Gods wrath upon the wicked, are but fore-runners of his eternal wrath, which shall come upon them; but it is not so with the Saints. And so I conclude this second particular, That though it be very dreadful when God goes forth against a people in his wrath, yet it is not so dreadful to the people of God as it is to others. But