A29368:501
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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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.
Fourthly, If the Lord seem to be at an uncertainty in point of his dispensations, and if you would meet with God, then take heed that you do not desire the woeful day, take heed that there be none among you who do desire the woeful day to come: A day of confusion in a Nation is a woeful day, a day of civil War is a woeful day, civil War begins with uncivil sins, and ends in uncivil Butcheries. Again
Fourthly, If the Lord seem to be at an uncertainty in point of his dispensations, and if you would meet with God, then take heed that you do not desire the wofull day, take heed that there be none among you who do desire the wofull day to come: A day of confusion in a Nation is a wofull day, a day of civil War is a wofull day, civil War begins with uncivil sins, and ends in uncivil Butcheries. Again
Fifthly, If God seem to be at a stand, in point of his dispensations, and if Temptations do then come to draw you off from God, why do you answer all with this: How shall I do this thing, and yet not sin against God, how shall I do this thing, and yet not sin against my own conscience, shall the Lord have his How's for you as I may say, and will you ⟨p. 177⟩have none for him? shall the Lord say, How shall I give thee up, O England! How shall I give thee up; O London! How shall I give thee up, O Yarmouth! and will not you say, How shall I sin against the Lord, shall the Lords bowels yearn, and turn within him for you, and shall not you turn to God; shall the Lord say, O Drunkard! How shall I give thee up? O Swearer! How shall I give thee up? O Sabbath-breaker! how shall I give thee up? O unclean Person or the like, how shall I give thee up? And shall not you say how shall I do this thing, and yet not sin against God? Therefore do thus, and then you will be able to meet with God in this case.