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Bridge's remains, being VIII sermons
Bridge's remains, being VIII sermons ... by that learned and judicious divine, Mr. William Bridge ...
London : Printed and are to be sold by John Hancock Senior and Junior ..., 1673
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Sermons › Sermon 7: Soul-Resignation, Into the hands of God.
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Fourthly, •hen a man doth join himself unto the Lord and his people, Then he is especially to resign and give up himself unto God. So the Churches of Macedonia did; for says Paul, 2 Cor. 8.5. And this they did, not as we hoped, but first gave their own selves to the Lord, and unto us by the will of God.
Fourthly, •hen a man doth joyn himself unto the Lord and his people, Then he is especially to resign and give up himself unto God. So the Churches of Macedonia did; for says Paul, 2 Cor. 8.5. And this they did, not as we hoped, but first gave their own selves to the Lord, and unto us by the will of God.
Fifthly, When a man hath sinned greatly, and wandered from the Lord, and from his holy Profession, and doth return again unto God, Then he is in a special manner to resign and give up himself unto God: The same thing is to be done in our renewed as in our first Conversion. And if ye look into 2 Chron. 30. ye shall find, that when all Israel had gone astray, Hezekiah exhorting them to return unto the Lord, he saith, v. 8. Now be ye not stiffnecked as your fathers were, but yield your selves ⟨p. 177⟩unto the Lord: Margin, Give you your hand unto God. When we have stolen any thing from God, it is our duty to restore it. Have we therefore in our first Conversion given our selves unto God, and afterward by our sins taken them away again? whenever we do return unto God, then it is our duty to restore, and so to resign up our selves unto him. And thus now ye see what those special times and seasons are which call for this work at our hands. The times of Conversion c•lls for it; The time of special Employment calls for it; The time of great danger calls for it; The time of joining to the Lord and his people calls for it; And the times of our returns unto God after wanderings calls for it.