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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
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Secondly. Do not you find a secret kind of disposition unto all the Commandments of the Gospel? Where the Spirit is, there Christ liveth. When the Lord makes a Covenant of grace, you shall observe he promiseth, that he will give his Spirit, and withal, that he will write his Law in our hearts: and when he promiseth in the Covenant of grace, that he will write his Law in our hearts, he doth also promise for to give his Spirit. As when the Lord gave out the Law at first to man-kind, he did write the Moral Law in mans heart; so that the Heathen now have the Law written in their hearts, the Moral Law; whereby they are disposed and inclined to Morality, and Civility: So when the Lord comes and makes a Covenant of grace with the soul, then he doth give out his Spirit to the soul, and then he doth write his Law, the Law of grace, love, and of the Gospel in that soul, and that soul hath a secret disposition unto all the Commandments of the Gospel. Now do ye not find it thus with you? when ⟨p. 109⟩sometimes you are tempted to what is evil, do not ye say thus, I cannot do it; Oh! Lord, thou knowest I cannot live as I have done, and I cannot want the presence of God and Christ. What means this Cannot? but a Law within, that God hath written in the heart, there is the Spirit, and there is Christ.
Secondly. Do not you find a secret kind of disposition unto all the Commandements of the Gospel? Where the Spirit is, there Christ liveth. When the Lord makes a Covenant of grace, you shall observe he promiseth, that he will give his Spirit, and withal, that he will write his Law in our hearts: and when he promiseth in the Covenant of grace, that he will write his Law in our hearts, he doth also promise for to give his Spirit. As when the Lord gave out the Law at first to man-kind, he did write the Moral Law in mans heart; so that the Heathen now have the Law written in their hearts, the Moral Law; whereby they are disposed and inclined to Morallity, and Civillity: So when the Lord comes and makes a Covenant of grace with the soul, then he doth give out his Spirit to the soul, and then he doth write his Law, the Law of grace, love, and of the Gospel in that soul, and that soul hath a secret disposition unto all the Commandements of the Gospel. Now do ye not find it thus with you? when ⟨p. 109⟩sometimes you are tempted to what is evil, do not ye say thus, I cannot do it; Oh! Lord, thou knowest I cannot live as I have done, and I cannot want the presence of God and Christ. What means this Cannot? but a Law within, that God hath written in the heart, there is the Spirit, and there is Christ.