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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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But the Lord was not yet contented, but causes more of His Grace to break forth in the times of the Prophets; more concerning Christ: He tells them of the very Time Christ should be born, Daniel the 9. Of the Place where He should be born, At Bethlehem. The Person that should bear Him:1 A Virgin shall conceive. Gives them divers Characters whereby they should know Him when He came: And I will send my Messenger before Him, The voice of one crying in the wilderness: He will ride upon an Asses colt; Behold thy King, 2comes riding upon an Asses colt: He shall be sold for Thirty pieces of silver (says the Prophet Zechariah) He shall die, not for His own sins but ours; The chastisement of our peace shall ⟨p. 76⟩be upon Him. And, as if all this were not enough; The Lord speaks out the Covenant of Grace expressly in Jer. 31.31. The days come, say the Lord, that I will make a New Covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah, verse the 33. This shall be the Covenant that I will make with them, after those days saith the Lord; I will put my Law into their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people: And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother; saying, Know the Lord: They shall all know me, from the least of them, unto the greatest of them, saith the Lord; for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more. What a mighty Advance had Grace made now! Is there any more yet? Yes! our Saviour Himself comes, and then Grace Advances higher, by much higher; then Grace enlarges her Quarters, extending it self unto all the world, go teach all Nations: Go teach all Nations (says our Saviour.) That house of Israel would serve such a candle as Moses was:3 But when the Sun arises, no less then the whole world for him to display his beams upon. He had set up a school of Grace in that corner of the world, in Jenny: But when the Lord Jesus Himself comes, a Free-School is set up, the School of Free Grace for all the children of men to come unto: Go teach all Nations.