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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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Fifthly, If you would serve under the conduct of divine love, then serve God with fear upon the account of his goodness. Work out your salvation with fear and trembling, for it is God that worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure. If you do serve and work, then fear upon the account of Gods goodness to you.
And to conclude this Application: If you would serve as those that serve under ⟨p. 23⟩the conduct of free grace and love; then have a care that in all your workings you depend upon nothing but the free grace of God in reference to your call: and if so, why then should you not willingly suffer for the Name of Christ? would you know whether you are called to suffer? why, this is a certain Rule, when the case is so with you, that you must either suffer or sin.
But then a second word of Application may be this. Is it so, that so much of the free grace is laid out in reference to our services and sufferings? Then First, Let us freely and willingly suffer for the Name and Cause of Christ.
Secondly, Is it so, that so much of the free grace of God is laid out in reference to our services and sufferings? then why should we not be contented with our sufferings; not only contented in suffering, or contented upon suffering, but contented with sufferings: Our Saviour tells us, that they that will be his Disciples must deny themselves, take up the Cross and follow him: Not only take up the Cross, but follow him; yea, and deny themselves. Some will deny themselves in this or that, but will not take up the Cross: but saith our Saviour, If any man will follow me, let