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…

I will make you obedient, says God. Oh! what streams of mercy are here! But I pray, mind the Fountain whence these flow; They all flow from this fountain of Free-remission: The first is, I will sprinkle clean water upon you, and cleanse you from all your idols: I will forgive you freely. I but, though this be set first, it may be this is not the Cause of the rest, how shall it appear, that this Free-remission is the Cause of all our holiness? Then (I pray) look into the 8. chap. of the Epistle to the Hebrews, (where this Covenant of grace is repeated) at the 10. verse, For this is the Covenant that I will make with the house of Israel, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their minds, and write them in their hearts: and they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest. Why? for I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins, and their iniquities will I remember no more. So that Remission is the Cause of Sanctification: I will thus and thus sanctify, says the Lord; For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and iniquities will I remember no more: this is the Cause of all that. Now I say, When a man is once estated in this Covenant of grace, the Lord (ye see) is engaged then for to make him holy. And as by works, and seeking Justification by works, a man is estated in the Covenant of works: So by faith, and seeking Justification by faith alone, a man is estated in the Covenant ⟨p. 39⟩of grace; and so the Lord is engaged for to make him holy. So that, thus you see now, This Free-grace of God, Justification of a poor sinner by faith alone, it is no enemy, but a real friend unto all our Holiness, and Spiritual life. No wonder therefore, that the Apostle says, And now I live.

I will make you obedient, saies God. Oh! what streams of mercy are here! But I pray, mind the Fountain whence these flow; They al flow from this fountain of Free-remission: The first is, I will sprinkle clean water upon you, and cleanse you from all your idols: I will forgive you freely. I but, though this be set first, it may be this is not the Cause of the rest, how shal it appear, that this Free-remission is the Cause of all our holiness? Then (I pray) look into the 8. chap. of the Epistle to the Hebrews, (where this Covenant of grace is repeated) at the 10. verse, For this is the Covenant that I will make with the house of Israel, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their minds, and write them in their hearts: and they shall not teach every man his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest. Why? for I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins, and their iniquities will I remember no more. So that Remission is the Cause of Sanctification: I will thus and thus sanctifie, saies the Lord; For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and iniquities will I remember no more: this is the Cause of all that. Now I say, When a man is once estated in this Covenant of grace, the Lord (ye see) is engaged then for to make him holy. And as by works, and seeking Justification by works, a man is estated in the Covenant of works: So by faith, and seeking Justification by faith alone, a man is estated in the Covenant