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The works of William Bridge, sometime fellow of Emmanuel College in CambridgeThe vvorks of William Bridge, sometime fellow of Emmanuel Colledge in Cambridge
The works of William Bridge, sometime fellow of Emmanuel College in Cambridge: now preacher of the Word of God at Yarmouth. The second volume. [sic] Viz. 1. Grace for grace; or, The overflowing of Christs fullness received by all saints. II. The spiritual actings of faith through natural impossibilities. III. Evangelical repentance.The vvorks of William Bridge, sometime fellow of Emmanuel Colledge in Cambridge: now preacher of the Word of God at Yarmouth. The second volumn. [sic] Viz. 1. Grace for grace; or, The overflowing of Christs fulness received by all saints. II. The spiritual actings of faith through natural impossibilities. III. Evangelical repentance.
London: printed by Peter Cole, 1649
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Secondly, §2The fullness of the earth, is a fullness made up of the worser things. The world, it is a great Body, and it hath in it some things that are of a grosser, more drossy nature: and some things that are of a finer nature. The fullness of the earth, it is of the drossy, and the grosser part of the world: Oh! but the Fullness of Christ, it is of the finer part; and the fullness that does come from Him unto Believers, the best of the bests; wine of the lees; and marrow out of the bones; and wine well refined; 'tis of the finer part of the world: The other is but the grosser, the thicker, the dirtier, the more grosser part.
Secondly, §2The fulness of the earth, is a fulness made up of the worser things. The world, it is a great Body, and it hath in it some things that are of a grosser, more drossy nature: and some things that are of a finer nature. The fulness of the earth, it is of the drossy, and the grosser part of the world: Oh! but the Fulness of Christ, it is of the finer part; and the fulness that does come from Him unto Beleevers, the best of the bests; wine of the lees; and marrow out of the bones; and wine well refined; 'tis of the finer part of the world: The other is but the grosser, the thicker, the dirtier, the more grosser part.
Thirdly, §3The fullness of the earth, is a fullness that runs into emptiness; a fullness that hath an hole at the bottom: Like unto an hour glass: if you turn it up, the upper part of the glass is full of sand: but because it hath an hole at the bottom, and there stands a glass beneath it as big as it self; it empties it self into that glass. Then you turn up the glass again, and that is full: but because that hath an hole at the bottom, it runs out, having an empty glass beneath it, and this fullness runs into it. So now, ;tis with the worlds fullness: a man he hath a great estate, he hath his glass full of sand: I but because his children, and his family stands under him; his sand runs into them, and he is soon emptied; he is soon emptied into them. Then, when the father is dead, and gone; and