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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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Thirdly, If you would meet with God in the way of his anger and Justice, then do you live justly, and deal justly and righteously. He hath showed thee O man what is good, and what doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God; Micah. 6.8. O my friends, labour to do what God commands, and what God expects: Now when he comes out against a people in the ⟨p. 179⟩way of his Justice, he expects that they should be found doing Justice; read the 9. verse, The Lords voice crieth unto the City, Hear ye the rod, and who hath appointed it; Gods voice is to scare us, and to cause us to leave sin and to turn unto him, and therefore he says, Hear ye the rod, and who hath appointed it.
Thirdly, If you would meet with God in the way of his anger and Justice, then do you live justly, and deal justly and righteously. He hath shewed thee O man what is good, and what doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God; Micah. 6.8. O my friends, labour to do what God commands, and what God expects: Now when he comes out against a people in the ⟨p. 179⟩way of his Justice, he expects that they should be found doing Justice; read the 9. verse, The Lords voice cryeth unto the City, Hear ye the rod, and who hath appointed it; Gods voice is to scare us, and to cause us to leave sin and to turn unto him, and therefore he sayes, Hear ye the rod, and who hath appointed it.
Fourthly, If you would meet with God in the way of his anger, then present unto God your free-will offerings, and pray unto him and seek his face; when Jacob went forth to meet his brother Esau, he sent presents to him, and his brothers face was changed; O what will become of those that never prayed one prayer more in private for all this anger and wrath of God, that seems to be coming out against us.