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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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Again, §3Evangelical Repentance, complies with spiritual joy, and is a friend unto it. You grieve for sin, and you rejoice in God: and when you rejoice in God, you grieve for sin. I will send the Comforter (says our Saviour.) He does not say, I will send the Spirit: No, but I will send the Comforter, and he shall convince the world of sin, and of unbelief. The Comforter, because it shall be a work of Comfort, unto the soul that is convinced of sin Gospel-wise. and the more a man rejoices in Christ, the more he grieves for sin: and the more he grieves for sin, the more he rejoiceth in Christ again.
Again, §3Enangelical Repentance, complies with spirituall joy, and is a friend unto it. You grieve for sin, and you rejoyce in God: and when you rejoyce in God, you grieve for sin. I will send the Comforter (saies our Saviour.) He does not say, I will send the Spirit: No, but I will send the Comforter, and he shall convince the world of sin, and of unbelief. The Comforter, because it shall be a work of Comfort, unto the soul that is convinced of sin Gospel-wise. and the more a man rejoyces in Christ, the more he grieves for sin: and the more he grieves for sin, the more he rejoyceth in Christ again.
Again, When your Repentance is Evangelical: §4The more you apprehend, or hope that your sin is pardoned, the more you will grieve for it. Ye read in the Psalms of one special Penitential Psalm of David: the 51. Psalm. But when was that made? A Psalm of David, when Nathan the Prophet came to him: that is, after the Prophet Nathan had been with him. And what did Nathan the Prophet say to him? Says Nathan, Thy sin is forgiven thee. Upon that message, David falls into a Penitential Psalm, a Psalm of Humiliation, and of Repentance. The more a man hath assurance that his sin is pardoned, the more he doth grieve for it.
Again, When your Repentance is Evangelical: