A29368:512
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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Seventhly, If you would be able to meet with God in the way of his anger, then wait upon God in the way of his Judgements, and in due time you shall be able to say, This is our God, Lo this our God we have waited for him; and if God be going, lay hold of him, take hold upon him, for so we are commanded, Isaiah 27.4, 5. Fury is not in me, &c. Or let him take hold of my strength that he may make peace with me, and he shall make peace with me.
Seventhly, If you would be able to meet with God in the way of his anger, then wait upon God in the way of his Judgements, and in due time you shall be able to say, This is our God, Loe this our God we have waited for him; and if God be going, lay hold of him, take hold upon him, for so we are commanded, Haiah 27.4, 5. Fury is not in me, &c. Or let him take hold of my strength that he may make peace with me, and he shall make peace with me.
Eighthly, If you would meet with God in the way of his anger, then lay aside your particular Interests, and think it your duty, and desire to do it.
Lastly, If you would prepare to meet with God in the way of his anger, then now whilst you have a little time, Go and set your self and your house in order, that whatsoever may come, you may have nothing ⟨p. 181⟩else to do but to dye; And then if God do come in Judgement, and Anger, you may be able to say I have heard the Rod, and have trembled, and have prepared to meet with God: And if God should not come in wrath, but some other way, yet you will have great comfort in your preparing to meet with God; For either God will come out against the Nation in anger, or he will not; if he do not, you will not lose by your preparing to meet him; but if he do, and you are prepared to meet with him, then will God meet with you in Love, because you have prepared to meet with him in Anger.