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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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Yea, §2in the second place. Although our Saviour Christ did go unto our fore fathers, the Jews; and preach unto them by His Spirit: He came to them as Joseph to his brethren at the first, in a hidden way under a veil: But now the veil of the Temple is rent asunder, and the most common people may see into the Holy of Holiest; Now we all with open face, behold as in a glass the Glory of the Lord. The Jews,1 they had the Shadows: and we have, (as it were) the Picture: but the Substance, the Thing; it is yet to come. These Three ye find in that first verse of the 10. Chapter to the Hebrews. For the Law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very Image of the thing. Here's the Shadow; and here's the Image; and here's the Thing it self: The ⟨p. 77⟩Thing it self, it is yet to come: They indeed had the Shadow, but we have the Image: and look how much an Image, or the picture of a man goes beyond a shadow; So much does the discovery of Christ now, go beyond the discoveries of Him then. Luther says, The whole world is but one day, (as it were.) And as the evening, and the morning made the day; so (says he) our fore fathers the Jews, they had the evening, but we have the morning.
Yea, §2in the second place. Although our Savior Christ did go unto our fore fathers, the Jews; and preach unto them by His Spirit: He came to them as Joseph to his brethren at the first, in a hidden way under a vail: But now the vail of the Temple is rent asunder, and the most common people may see into the Holy of Holiest; Now we all with open face, behold as in a glass the Glory of the Lord. The Jews,1 they had the Shadows: and we have, (as it were) the Picture: but the Substance, the Thing; it is yet to come. These Three ye find in that first verse of the 10. Chapter to the Hebrews. For the Law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very Image of the thing. Here's the Shadow; and here's the Image; and here's the Thing it self: The ⟨p. 77⟩