A29368:495
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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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.
And further It is the duty of all Gods people to hold a compliance with his dispensations, now if you do not go to meet with God, you do not comply with his dispensations: So that I say when God comes forth against a people, it is their ⟨p. 174⟩duty to go forth, and to prepare to meet him. And so I come to the fourth General which was proposed.
Fourthly, If it be the duty of a people, when God goes forth against them in his anger to prepare to meet him, Why then what shall we do, to prepare our selves to meet with God; for sometimes God seems to be at a stand, and to be unresolved what to do, and sometimes he is resolved to go forth against a people, now what shall we do that we may prepare to meet God in both these Cases.