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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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You will say then, Quest. why does God give the promise? I confess this is true, I seldom had any great mercy in all my days, but first of all, the sentence of death came upon ⟨p. 163⟩it: But one thing seems very strange to me; that the Lord should give out a promise, first a promise given out, and then comes the sentence of death upon the mercy, and upon the means that do lead unto it. What should be the meaning of this? why does the Lord deal thus, give out a promise first?
You will say then, Quest. why does God give the promise? I confesse this is true, I seldome had any great mercy in all my dayes, but first of all, the sentence of death came upon ⟨p. 163⟩it: But one thing seemes very strange to me; that the Lord should give out a promise, first a promise given out, and then comes the sentence of death upon the mercy, and upon the meanes that do lead unto it. What should be the meaning of this? why does the Lord deal thus, give out a promise first?
A promise is given out twice. At the first, Answ. 1 before we do use the means, to encourage us thereunto. Afterwards upon some encouragements that we do meet with in the use of means.
A promise is given out twice. At the first, Answ. 1 before we do use the meanes, to incourage us thereunto. Afterwards upon some incouragements that we do meet with in the use of means.
When the Lord does first give out the promise, a sentence of death then passes, that he may show you where the mercy lies. As the mother does deal by her child; shows the child where the meat stands: child, thou art not yet fit for it, thou shalt have it in due time, look, here it stands. Or as a father that shows the child where the money lies: child, time is not yet, but there the money lies, there's the bag it's in, none shall take it from thee. So does God do: you think that the Mercy lies in the second cause; No, says God, here, here's the bag that it lies in. Therefore he does first give out the promise, that he may tell the soul where the Mercy lies, show the soul where it is.