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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.
And if it were not so, How should the absence of Jesus Christ be recompensed by the coming of the Spirit, or of the Comforter? When our Lord and Saviour Christ left the World and his Disciples, he gave them a gracious Promise of sending his Spirit;1 And if I go not (saith he) the Spirit or the Comforter, will not come: but if I go, I will send the Comforter, and he shall make up your loss of me. Now if that the Spirit of Christ should not be in a Believer, and live in him; how would the coming of the Holy Ghost, and of the Spirit, make up the loss of the personal presence of Jesus Christ?
And if it were not so, How should the absence of Jesus Christ be recompenced by the coming of the Spirit, or of the Comforter? When our Lord and Saviour Christ left the World and his Disciples, he gave them a gracious Promise of sending his Spirit;1 And if I go not (saith he) the Spirit or the Comforter, will not come: but if I go, I will send the Comforter, and he shall make up your losse of me. Now if that the Spirit of Christ should not be in a Beleever, and live in him; how would the coming of the Holy Ghost, and of the Spirit, make up the losse of the personal presence of Jesus Christ?
Besides, You know that friends love to be near unto one another; and the nearer they are, the happier they count themselves; they love not to be asunder: the soul of the lover, liveth where it loveth, rather than where it liveth. Now there is the greatest friendship between Christ and a Believer; and the Lord Jesus Christ, hath a happiness above all friends; that he can make himself nearer, and be more One with his friends, than any friend in the world can. And therefore, upon those terms of Love and Friendship, Christ by his Spirit liveth in all Believers.