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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.
Object. If this be true; surely there are few Believers in the world; how few are there in whom Christ lives thus? I fear upon this account (will some poor soul say) that I have no faith in jesus Christ: I thought once that I had faith in Christ, and that I was a Believer, but I do not find Christ living in me thus, that the Lord Jesus hath a greater hand and stroke, in all my Duties than my self, and therefore I fear that I never yet had faith: are there not few Believers in the world upon this account?
Object. If this be true; surely there are few Beleevers in the world; how few are there in whom Christ lives thus? I fear upon this account (will some poor soul say) that I have no faith in jesus Christ: I thought once that I had faith in Christ, and that I was a Beleever, but I do not find Christ living in me thus, that the Lord Jesus hath a greater hand and stroke, in all my Duties than my self, and therefore I fear that I never yet had faith: are there not few Beleevers in the world upon this account?
Answ. I grant it, there are few Believers in the world, few that have faith, few in whom Christ lives thus. But that this Doctrine may not be a stone of stumbling to any weak Christian.
Answ. I grant it, there are few Beleevers in the world, few that have faith, few in whom Christ lives thus. But that this Doctrine may not be a stone of stumbling to any weak Christian.
First, You must know this: That it is with Christ in us, living in us, as it was with Christ without us, living without us. When the Lord Christ came into the world, and lived here on earth, lived without us; he lived a conflicting life, a life under Temptations, and freedom from those Temptations; Desertions, and freedom from those Desertions: his life here on earth was a hidden life, a veiled life; He came unto his own, and his own received him not;