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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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But we need not strain for any mystical interpretation, or expression: when Abraham says, Shall a child be bron unto him that is an hundred years old? (In that seventeenth of Genesis and the seventeenth) they are words not of Doubting, but words of Inquiring: Abraham desiring to be further satisfied, and rightly to understand the meaning of the promise, and rightly understanding the meaning of the promise, says the Apostle, He did not much mind, he did not throughly mind, he did not stand poring upon, or considering the deadness of his own body, or the deadness of Sarahs womb.
But we need not straine for any mysticall interpretation, or expression: when Abraham sayes, Shall a child be bron unto him that is an hundred years old? (In that seventeenth of Genesis and the seventeenth) they are words not of Doubting, but words of Inquiring: Abraham desiring to be further satisfied, and rightly to understand the meaning of the promise, and rightly understanding the meaning of the promise, sayes the Apostle, He did not much mind, he did not throughly mind, he did not stand poring upon, or considering the deadnesse of his own body, or the deadnesse of Sarahs wombe.
There are three things (especially) considerable in these words.
First of all, That Abraham's body and Sarahs body are dead, after God gives out a promise of a great seed of his.
Frist of all, That Abrahams body and Sarahs body are dead, after God gives out a promise of a great seed of his.