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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 you will say, Quest. Is it so with the Saints in regard of all their Spiritual blessings too?
But you will say, Quest. Is it so with the Saints in regard of all their Spirirtuall blessings too?
Yes. Answ. When ever did the Lord give an Ordinance to his ⟨p. 160⟩people in the way of a special mercy, but first of all the sentence of death came upon the business, and upon all the means that did lead unto it?
Yes. Answ. When ever did the Lord give an Ordiance to his ⟨p. 160⟩people in the way of a speciall mercy, but first of all the sentence of death came upon the businesse, and upon all the means that did lead unto it?
When did the Lord ever give any grace to his people, but first of all the sentence of death past? when ever did the Lord give any encouragement in duty to any of his children, but first a sentence of death past? When ever did the Lord give any great enjoyment of himself to any of his children, but first a sentence of death past? When ever was a poor soul made fruitful, but first a sentence of death past? Oh! never any more barren then I, never any more dead then I; Our Lord and Saviour Christ, he promises his Disciples, that he would send them the Holy-Ghost, the Comforter: but before the Comforter came, he goes away himself from them, and they were left, and never in such a sad condition as immediately before the Comforter came. And if you mind it here, though Abraham had many acts of Faith, yet this act of faith is singled out from all the rest of the actings of Abraham's faith; wherein Abraham is held forth as a pattern for all believers. The grace of a godly man, is his souls Resurrection, We are risen, being risen with Christ, by grace we rise: Now says the Apostle; 'tis in regard of the Resurrection, is with seed that is sown: it first dies, and then it rises. The Saints, and people of God, they have all their graces, and all their comforts in a way of Resurrection. This is the way therefore God takes with his people. Only, take along with you, these three or four cautionall considerations.