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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.
I confess there are Learned Interpreters, as Cyril, and Chrysostom, that do conceive the words of my Text, to be the words of John the Evangelist: the 15. verse, having (as they say) relation unto Johns speech in the latter end of the 14. verse, Full of Grace and Truth.
I confess there are Learned Interpreters, as Cyril, and Chrysostome, that do conceive the words of my Text, to be the words of John the Evangelist: the 15. verse, having (as they say) relation unto Johns speech in the latter end of the 14. verse, Full of Grace and Truth.
But Origen and others (unto whom I rather incline) think that they are the words of John the Baptist; because they are knit unto the former by the copulative And: And, of His fullness have all we received, Grace for Grace. He therefore that spake the words of the former verse, in all likelihood, spake these words: He that spake the words of the former verse was John the Baptist, and therefore these words being linked unto the former by the word, And, in all likelihood are the words of John the Baptist.
But Origen and others (unto whom I rather incline) think that they are the words of John the Baptist; because they are knit unto the former by the copulative And: And, of His fulness have all we received, Grace for Grace. He therefore that spake the words of the former verse, in all likelyhood, spake these words: He that spake the words of the former verse was John the Baptist, and therfore these words being linked unto the former by the word, And, in all likelyhood are the words of John the Baptist.
The Words of themselves fall into these Three Propositions.