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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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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⟩that all is of God, that all is of Grace; and so this place does rather confirm the Doctrine that I am now upon.
I but yet it will be said then. Grant it, Object. that all Grace is from Christ, that whatsoever Grace a man hath, he hath it from Jesus Christ: Yet so, as that when a man is converted, and drawn to Christ; there is a principle, or a habit of Grace infused into the soul, whereby through ordinary concurrence, and assistance from God, a man is able for to walk graciously without fresh assistance: For example, When the Lord made the world in the beginning, He gave unto the creatures a power to bring forth their like: He gave unto the Beasts a power to bring forth their like: He gave unto Plants, unto Herbs a power to bring forth their like: He gave unto Man a power to bring forth his like; and so, Grace being but a creature, He gave also unto Grace, a power to bring forth gracious actions without fresh assistance, only by ordinary concurrence: yet because that this first habit is infused and comes from God, this is said to be from Christ, and from Grace; so that though all is of Grace, and all is from Christ, yet all is not from Christ in regard of fresh assistance.