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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, Experience seems for to speak the contrary: for, arguments drawn from Hell, and the wrath of God, seem to be more powerful, and efficacious in the working of Repentance. I have (will some say) sometimes considered the wrath of God, and let out my heart upon arguments drawn from thence; and then I have bin much humbled, broken; been much affected: yea, the truth is, I have been more humbled, and more broken, and more affected, and more troubled for sin; than when the Gospel, the word of the Kingdom hath been preached, and opened unto me: How therefore is this true? Experience seems to speak the contrary.
You will say, Experience seems for to speak the contrary: for, arguments drawn from Hell, and the wrath of God, seem to be more powerful, and efficacious in the working of Repentance. I have (will some say) sometimes considered the wrath of God, and let out my heart upon arguments drawn from thence; and then I have bin much humbled, broken; been much affected: yea, the truth is, I have been more humbled, and more broken, and more affected, and more troubled for sin; than when the Gospel, the word of the Kingdom hath been preach'd, and opened unto me: How therefore is this true? Experience seems to speak the contrary.
I answer, Quicquid recipitur &c. Every thing is received according unto the receiver. A legal spirit doth relish and savour most of those arguments which are drawn from Hell, and from the wrath of God: But an Evangelical Christian, those that are drawn from love and mercy. ⟨p. 248⟩But for the more full Answer to this, pray consider with me, these Six, or Seven Distinctions.