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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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Rom. 4. vers. 19. And being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead, when he was about an hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sarahs womb.
Rom. 4. vers. 19. And being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead, when he was about an hundred years old, neither yet the deadnesse of Sarahs wombe.
The First is this: That when God intends to fulfil his promise, by giving any special blessing to the children of Abraham: he does first put the sentence of death upon the blessing, and upon all the means that do lead unto it: Abraham's body is dead, and Sarahs womb is dead; when God had promised him a great seed.