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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 shall speak but two things unto that, briefly.
I shall speake but two things unto that, briefly.
A Christian may have some persuasion of the Resurrection of his Mercy when the sentence of death is put upon it; Answ. 1 by the frequent visitings of the promise; mark, when God intends any special Mercy to his people, he gives out a promise; then comes the sentence of death: but if he intends to fulfil the promise; he does cause the promise frequently to visit the Soul, even when the sentence of death is upon the business; often to knock at the door of the Soul. When there is Good-will between two Young people kept from marrying by their Parents, and the Young man often is at the house; ye say, surely, if the Parents were but dead, there would be a marriage quickly, by the frequent visitings. So now, when the promise does frequently ⟨p. 168⟩visit the Soul in the time when the sentence of death is upon the business, it argues that the Mercy is not quite dead. Moses had a promise in a vision: the Bush burning, and not consuming; Israel in Egypt, and not destroyed: Moses, he carries this promise along with him in his bosom: indeed we do not read of it till Moses comes to die; and when Moses comes to bless the People:1 The good will of him that dwelt in the Bush, be with you. This same promise kept Moses company all along; and though the sentence of death was often put upon the business, yet notwithstanding, in that the Mercy came and visited him, it argued that this promise was not quite dead. So by the frequent Visitings of the same promise;2 Though the Tree be cut down; yet through the sent of those waters it shall rise again.
A Christian may have some perswasion of the Resurrection of his Mercy when the sentence of death is put upon it; Answ. 1 by the frequent visitings of the promise; marke, when God intends any speciall Mercy to his people, he gives out a promise; then comes the sentence of death: but if he intends to fulfill the promise; he does cause the promise frequently to visit the Soule, even when the sentence of death is upon the businesse; often to knock at the doore of the Soule. When there is Good-will between two Young people kept from marrying by their Parents, and the Young man often is at the house; ye say, surely, if the Parents were but dead, there would be a marriage quickly, by the frequent visitings. So now, when the promise does frequently