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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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But you may be ready to say, I have no work. That is a mistake; for there are none but have work: therefore look unto that which is your work.
But you may say again, Though I have work and service, yet my service may be a judicious service, or a mercenary service, or a providential service: Now how shall I distinguish my service, Whether it be a providential, a judicious, a mercenary service, or whether God hath graciously singled me out to serve him in a way of free grace and love?
But you may say again, Though I have work and service, yet my service may be a judicious service, or a mercinary service, or a providential service: Now how shall I distinguish my service, Whether it be a providential, a judicious, a mercenary service, or whether God hath graciously singled me out to serve him in a way of free grace and love?
In answer to this, take these two or three things.
First, If it be a work or service given you by free grace, then God will lead you more and more, and bring you to be acquainted with the design of his work. When Peter was called to open the door of the Temple, at first he did not know