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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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Secondly, If you serve God in a way of free grace, then you will be contented with your work: yea, you will be contented to be used for God, to be laid out for God, you will say, I am contented, because God hath called me.
Thirdly, When God doth make use of a man in a way of free grace, then that man doth not make any great bargains for himself: they that serve God any other way, will make great bargains for themselves, make use of his service to increase their estates: But now they that serve God out in a way of free grace, will not do so. Therefore now you that are at work, do you pocket up at work? Do you make great bargains for your selves? If so, this is no free grace work.
Thirdly, When God doth make use of a man in a way of free grace, then that man doth not make any great bargains for himself: they that serve God any other way, will make great bargains for themselves, make use of his service to encrease their estates: But now they that serve God out in a way of free grace, will not do so. Therefore now you that are at work, do you pocket up at work? Do you make great bargains for your selves? If so, this is no free grace work.
But you will say, I am afraid I do not serve God in a way of free grace, because I have no success in my work. But you may observe in the Scripture, that sometimes a man may be called to work by free grace, and may have success at the beginning, as Joseph had many years, and yet the success may leave him.