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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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 the like purpose you have in James, 1.17. Every good giving, and every perfect gift is from above. In some of your books you read thus: Every good gift, and every perfect gift is from above: But it is rather to be read, Every good giving. Every good gift, and every good giving is from above. Not only the Thing given, is from above, but the very Donation, the very Exhibition, the very Giving out of the thing that is good, it is from above. Every good giving, and every perfect gift is from above. So that plainly then, there is an utter Insufficiency in Nature unto what is good.
To the like purpose you have in James, 1.17. Every good giving, and every perfect gift is from above. In some of your books you reade thus: Every good gift, and every perfect gift is from above: But it is rather to be read, Every good giving. Every good gift, and every good giving is from above. Not only the Thing given, is from above, but the very Donation, the very Exhibition, the very Giving out of the thing that is good, it is from above. Every good giving, and every perfect gift is from above. So that plainly then, there is an utter Insufficiency in Nature unto what is good.
As for the Al-sufficiency of Jesus Christ: 1He is the first born among many Brethren. He is the first fruit that sanctifieth all the rest. I am the first, and the last, says he. The first is the cause of the rest. The Sun is the first, and the great light, so the cause of all other light. Jesus Christ, He is called the first, in this same Chapter, 15. verse This was He (says John) of whom I spake, He that cometh after me, is preferred before me, for He was before me. So ye read it, but it is He was my first, preferred before me,2 for He was my first; and therefore the first, giving a Being unto all that follows. Jesus Christ, He does give a Being unto all our graces. I am the way, the truth, and the life, says He.