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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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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.
But before we come unto that. The holy Ghost here, would have us take notice, First, From whence Christ came, and upon what occasion. Secondly, Whither he came, and how he was received.
First of all, it is said here, [Then Jesus went thence.] He went from the Jews. He had been (as ye read in the former part of the chapter) disputing with them against their Traditions, Ye have made the Commandment of God void, through your Traditions, verse 6. Whereupon they were ⟨p. 199⟩much offended, verse 12. Our Saviour now then goes from them; they were offended, and rejected his words, and he goes from them. These were the Jews that dwelt at Jerusalem, not the meanest neither, The Scribes and Pharisees, the Learned men of that time, and those that were most in account for Holiness; See what entertainment the Gospel finds in Christs own time among the Learned, and those that were accounted the most Holy: Scribes, Learned men, and the Pharisees, the most precise, and strict men of those times, and yet here the Gospel is rejected by them. Christ goes away, Christ goes from thence, upon this account.