A29368:500
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, If God seem to be at a stand, then do you repent and turn to God, for this is that which God expects, and looks for, yet have ye not returned unto me saith the Lord: The Lord repeats it again and again, in the close of several verses, though I have been at a stand, yet have ye not returned unto me saith the Lord. Therefore I say when God seems to be at a stand, be sure that you return unto God; and what I say unto one, I say unto all, and to my own soul also; Doth the Lord seem to be at a stand with us, then let us all return to ⟨p. 176⟩the Lord by repentance, it may be he stays his hand to see what we will do.
Secondly, If God seem to be at a stand, then do you repent and turn to God, for this is that which God expects, and looks for, yet have ye not returned unto me saith the Lord: The Lord repeats it again and again, in the close of several verses, though I have been at a stand, yet have ye not returned unto me saith the Lord. Therefore I say when God seems to be at a stand, be sure that you return unto God; and what I say unto one, I say unto all, and to my own soul also; Doth the Lord seem to be at a stand with us, then let us all return to ⟨p. 176⟩the Lord by repentance, it may be he staies his hand to see what we will do.
Thirdly, If God seem to be at a stand, and if you would meet with him, then go, and make your choice, Choose rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season.
Thirdly, If God seem to be at a stand, and if you would meet with him, then go, and make your choice, Chuse rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season.