A29368:493
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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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
Thirdly, Though it be not so terrible for the people of God to meet with God in his anger and as it is for others, yet it is a very hard and uncomfortable thing for them to meet with God in this way, for they are used to have other kind of meetings with God, they use to meet him in the Assemblies, to meet him in love, there the Saints desire to meet with God. But
Fourthly, If God do go forth against a people in his wrath, it is their duty, the duty of them all, and of Gods own people also, to go forth to meet God: It is here commanded in the Text by way ⟨p. 173⟩of reason; It is the duty of Gods people and of others also, to honour God when they are under his dispensations; now when men go forth to meet God, then they honour him; Abraham and Lot intended to honour the Angel, and therefore they went forth to meet him; Joseph would honour his Father Jacob, and therefore he went forth to meet him: Moses would honour his Father Jethro, and therefore he went forth to meet him: Abigail would honour David, and therefore she went forth to meet him; Martha would honour Christ, and therefore went forth to meet him; Cornelius and the believing Romans would honour Paul, and therefore they went forth to meet him: And so if a man be coming to your house, if you would honour him you go forth to meet him; Why now it is our duty to honour God, and therefore it is our duty also to prepare to meet with God, that we may thereby honour him.