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I. Scripture-light the most sure light ... delivered in three sermons on 2 Pet.…
I. Scripture-light the most sure light ... delivered in three sermons on 2 Pet. I. 19 : II. Christ in travel ... in three sermons on Isai. 53. 11 : III. A lifting up for the down-cast ... delivered in thirteen sermons on Psal. 42, 11 : four several sermons ... / preached by William Bridge ...
London: printed by Peter Cole, 1656
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Eighthly: If all the Benefits of Christs Death, and Blessings of the new Covenant, should be given out upon some Condition to be performed by us, as Faith, and Repentance; then our Faith should give us a Right, and Title unto all those Blessings and Benefits: As if I sell a thing upon Condition that a man pay me so much Money, his payment of the Money being the performance of the Condition, gives him a Right, and Title to the thing: Or if I promise to give a man an hundred pound, upon condition that he go of such an Errand for me; if he go, his very going gives him a Right, and Title to the hundred pound, because he performs the Condition. But though Faith be our hand whereby we receive the Benefits of Christs Death, and Blessings of the Covenant, yet it doth not give us any Right, or Title to them; all our Right, and Title, is in Christs Blood, his Death, his Satisfaction, and his Obedience, and in that alone.
Eightly: If al the Benefits of Christs Death, and Blessings of the new Covenant, should be given out upon some Condition to be performed by us, as Faith, and Repentance; then our Faith should give us a Right, and Title unto al those Blessings and Benefits: As if I sel a thing upon Condition that a man pay me so much Money, his payment of the Money being the performance of the Condition, gives him a Right, and Title to the thing: Or if I promise to give a man an hundred pound, upon condition that he go of such an Errand for me; if he go, his very going gives him a Right, and Title to the hundred pound, because he performs the Condition. But though Faith be our hand whereby we receive the Benefits of Christs Death, and Blessings of the Covenant, yet it doth not give us any Right, or Title to them; al our Right, and Title, is in Christs Blood, his Death, his Satisfaction, and his Obedience, and in that alone.
Ninthly: This Objection doth suppose the Covenant of Grace to be Conditional: but the Covenant of Grace, is free, absolute, and without all Conditions to be performed by us. For,
Ninthly: This Objection doth suppose the Covenant of Grace to be Conditional: but the Covenant of Grace, is free, absolute, and without al Conditions to be performed by us. For,