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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, Who, and what are those, and whose servants are they, that do come into, and go out of your souls? are they not the retinue, and the servants of Jesus Christ? Ye say, such a man, or a Noble man lives here, for his servants go in and out daily. And what Words come out of your mouth? and what Words go in at your ear? whose servants are they ordinarily? are you ever better than when you are thinking, or speaking of Jesus Christ? & hearing from Christ? Certainly, if his servants do most ordinarily come in and go out, the Master is within, Christ is within.
Secondly, Do not ye find your souls in some measure Naturalized unto the Work of Christ? the Things of Christ, and the Work of Christ in some measure Naturalized unto your souls? Adam (ye know) was the first man, ⟨p. 90⟩the father of us all; we were in Him as your Root, and he in Us as his Seed: and his Works, they are Naturalized to us. We being in him as in the Root, and he being in us as in his Seed, his Works are Naturalized to us. It's Natural to See, and to Hear, and to Speak; it's natural for a man to Sin. Sometimes ye have a Wicked man hating of a Godly, Gracious man, and he can give you no reason for it; I cannot tell why (saith he) but my heart is against him. But I'll tell ye why, and what the reason is: The Old Man is in him, the Old Adam is in him, and the work of Adam is Naturalized to a Wicked man, and he can give you no reason, (many times) why he does so, because the Work is Naturalized to him. So on the contrary, The Lord Jesus Christ is our second Adam, and believers being in him as in their Root, and he in them as in his Seed; his Works also, are Naturalized unto a believer in a great measure; that a believer (sometimes) his heart does stand unto the good Work of God, and he can give you no reason for it: why I should love this or that Godly man, I can give you no reason; but so it is, my heart stands towards him. The reason is this, because that Christ the Second Adam is within, and so his Work, and Things are naturalized unto the soul; and in some measure, is it not so with you?