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The works of William Bridge, sometime fellow of Emanuel College in CambridgeThe works of William Bridge, sometime fellow of Emanuel Colledge in Cambridge
The works of William Bridge, sometime fellow of Emanuel College in Cambridge; now preacher of the Word of God at Yarmouth. The first volume. Viz. I. The great Gospel-mystery of the saints comfort and holiness, opened and applied from Christs priestly office. II. Satan's power to tempt; and Christs love to, and care of his people under temptation. III. Thankfulness required in every condition.The works of William Bridge, sometime fellow of Emanuel Colledge in Cambridge; now preacher of the Word of God at Yarmouth. The first volume. Viz. I. The great Gospel-mysterie of the saints comfort and holinesse, opened and applyed from Christs priestly office. II. Satans power to tempt; and Christs love to, and care of his people under temptation. III. Thankfulnesse required in every condition.
London: printed for Peter Cole, 1649
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.
To this I shall ad one word; When the Lord Jesus Christ offered up himself a sacrifice unto God the Father, and had our sins laid upon him, he did given more perfect satisfaction unto Divine justice for our sins; than if you, and I, and all of us had been damned in Hell unto all eternity. For a Creditor is more satisfied, if his debt be paid him all down at once, than if it be paid by the week: A poor man that cannot pay all down, will pay a groat a week, or sixpence a week; but 'tis more satisfaction to the Creditor to have all paid at once. Should we have been all damned, we should have been but paying the debt a little, and a little, and a little: but when Christ paid it, he paid it all down to God the Father. Had we gone to Hell, and been damned for ever, we had always been satisfying of God, I but God had never been satisfied: but now when Christ makes satisfaction, God was satisfied. The Creditor, if he be a merciful and a good man, is more truly satisfied where the Debtor is spared; he does not desire that the Debtor should be cast ⟨p. 13⟩into prison, and there lie and rot; but he is better satisfied with the sparing of the Debtor; let me have but my Money, and so the Debtor be spared I am willing, nay I desire it says the good Creditor. Now if all we had bin cast into everlasting burnings, indeed the debt should have been a paying, but there the Debtor had been lost: But not when Christ comes, and makes satisfaction unto Divine justice, Ah! poor man is redeemed; here is the Debtor spared. And therefore, the Lord he is infinitely more satisfied, by the satisfaction that Christ made upon the Cross for our sins, than if all we had gone to Hell, and been damned to all eternity. Oh! what a glorious, and blessed satisfaction did this our High-Priest make unto God the Father!
To this I shall ad one word; When the Lord Jesus Christ offered up himself a sacrifice unto God the Father, and had our sins laid upon him, he did given more perfect satisfaction unto Divine justice for our sins; than if you, and I, and all of us had been damned in Hell unto all eternity. For a Creditor is more satisfied, if his debt be paid him all down at once, than if it be paid by the week: A poor man that cannot pay all down, will pay a groat a week, or sixpence a week; but 'tis more satisfaction to the Creditor to have all paid at once. Should we have been all damned, we should have been but paying the debt a little, and a little, and a little: but when Christ paid it, he paid it all down to God the Father. Had we gone to Hell, and been damned for ever, we had alwaies been satisfying of God, I but God had never been satisfied: but now when Christ makes satisfaction, God was satisfied. The Creditor, if he be a merciful and a good man, is more truly satisfied where the Debter is spared; he does not desire that the Debter should be cast