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The works of William Bridge, sometime fellow of Emmanuel College in Cambridge, now preacher…The vvorks of William Bridge, sometime fellow of Emmanuel Colledge in Cambridge, now preacher…
The works of William Bridge, sometime fellow of Emmanuel College in Cambridge, now preacher of the Word of God at Yarmouth. The third volume. [sic] Viz. 1. The spiritual life, and in-being of Christ in all believers. 2. The woman of Canaan.The vvorks of William Bridge, sometime fellow of Emmanuel Colledge in Cambridge, now preacher of the Word of God at Yarmouth. The third volumn. [sic] Viz. 1. The spiritual life, and in-being of Christ in all believers. 2. The woman of Canaan.
London: printed by Peter Cole, 1649
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.
First. That every godly, gracious man, is a living man, is in the state of life, lives a spiritual life. And this I have spoken to.
Doct. 2 Secondly. That our justification by faith alone, is no enemy, but a real friend unto this our Spiritual life.
Nevertheless, [Greek or Hebrew] and now I live; but now I live. As if he should say, I never did live before; but now being justified by faith alone, and having the experience of this great Truth, Now I live. At the 16. verse, he had said, That a man is not justified by the works of the Law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ; Whereupon it was, or might be objected: If a man be not justified by the works of the Law, then is he free from the Law, then is he dead unto the Law, then may a man live as he lists? Nay, not so (says the Apostle at the 19. verse) For I through the Law, am dead to the Law, that I might live to God: (quite contrary) That I might live to God, I am dead to the Law. Yea, and though I am crucified with Christ, yet now I live, and I never did live till now; but now I live: This very principle of justification by faith alone, is ⟨p. 26⟩the fountain, and original of all my spiritual life. And thus indeed you shall find: for if you look into those three Epistles of Paul, To the Romans, the Galatians, and the Hebrews; ye shall find, that the Apostle does give this as the rise unto all his Exhortations unto Holiness of life. In the latter end of the Epistle to the Romans, the Apostle does exhort unto holy practises, and to a godly conversation: but in the beginning, he does state, and prove this Doctrine, of Justification by faith alone. So in this Epistle to the Galatians; So in the Epistle to the Hebrews: As if the only rise of all our Holiness, and Godly Conversation were this, Our Free-justification through the Blood of Christ, by faith alone.