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Seasonable truths in evil-times in several sermons / lately preached in and about London
Seasonable truths in evil-times in several sermons / lately preached in and about London by William Bridge, late preacher of the word of God at Yarmouth.Seasonable truths in evil-times in several sermons / lately preached in and about London by Willam Bridge, late preacher of the word of God at Yarmouth.
London: printed for Nath. Crouch, 1668
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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.
And this you shall find to be the end of all those afflictions which we meet withal from God the Father. God the Father is unwilling to afflict his children, he would not do it unless it were necessary; why the end of his affliction we find to be this, in Joh. 15. 2. Every branch in me that beareth not fruit, he taketh away; and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit.
And this you shall finde to be the end of all those afflictions which we meet withal from God the Father. God the Father is unwilling to afflict his children, he would not do it unless it were necessary; why the end of his affliction we finde to be this, in Joh. 15. 2. Every branch in me that beareth not fruit, he taketh away; and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit.
And this you shall find to be the end of Christs coming, as you read in Joh. 10. 10. I am come, that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly. There lies a poor soul, saith Christ, dead in trespasses and sins; I am not only come to give life unto that soul, (spiritual life) but that he may have it in more abundance. So that it is not only our duty to have grace, but we must abound therein more and more; we must grow therein. And, my Beloved,
And this you shall find to be the end of Christs coming, as you read in Joh. 10. 10. I am come, that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly. There lies a poor soul, saith Christ, dead in trespasses and sins; I am not onely come to give life unto that soul, (spiritual life) but that he may have it in more abundance. So that it is not onely our duty to have grace, but we must abound therein more and more; we must grow therein. And, my Beloved,