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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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The scope therefore, §2(Secondly) of this place is this: To show the vanity, and the boot-lesness of all our thoughts without God. Let a man think, and think, and spend his heart in thought-fullness, all is in vain unless God go along with him: for God can come between his heart, and his lips▪ So it was with Balaam; he prepared his heart for to curse the people; but God came between his heart and the preparation, and he gave an answer of blessing: contrary to the preparation of his heart. That is the scope of the place, to show the vanity of the preparations of our hearts to any busyness, unless we take God along with us.
The scope therefore, §2(Secondly) of this place is this: To shew the vanity, and the boot-lesness of all our thoughts without God. Let a man think, and think, and spend his heart in thought-fulness, all is in vain unless God go along with him: for God can come between his heart, and his lips▪ So it was with Balaam; he prepared his heart for to curse the people; but God came between his heart and the preparation, and he gave an answer of blessing: contrary to the preparation of his heart. That is the scope of the place, to show the vanity of the preparations of our hearts to any busyness, unless we take God along with us.
Thirdly. §3This place is so far from speaking against the Doctrine in hand that it seems to speak for it. For according to the Hebrew, the words may be read thus: The heart preparations of man, and the answer of the tongue from the Lord: giving both heart, and tongue into the hand of the Lord. And if it be so, that after a man hath prepared his heart unto any work, God is able to come between the heart and the lip, and to give in another answer into the mouth then what was intended in the heart: this shows, ⟨p. 101⟩