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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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First, He answered her not a word; but was silent to all her misery, and Prayer. This was a great Temptation, a great trial.
First, He answered her not a word; but was silent to all her misery, and Prayer. This was a great Temptation, a great tryal.
Secondly. He was not only silent; but when the Disciples spake for her, he seems to give her a flat denial: I am not sent, but to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. And this was a further, and greater Temptation.
Thirdly. When yet she pressed in upon him; he seems to give her the repulse, and to call her Dog: It is not meet to take the children's bread, and to cast it to Dogs. Here was a great Temptation indeed. But her faith wrought through all these Temptations. And because (as ye shall see and hear in the opening of the words) that there is none of all these Temptations, but one time or other, may befall the best of Gods children: it will be good for us to observe, How this woman's faith wrought through every Temptation, that we may do the like in our Temptations.
Thirdly. When yet she prest in upon him; he seems to give her the repulse, and to call her Dog: It is not meet to take the childrens bread, and to cast it to Dogs. Here was a great Temptation indeed. But her faith wrought through all these Temptations. And because (as ye shall see and hear in the opening of the words) that there is none of all these Temptations, but one time or other, may befall the best of Gods children: it will be good for us to observe, How this womans faith wrought through every Temptation, that we may do the like in our Temptations.