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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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Quest. 2 Secondly. Whereby may it appear, That every godly, gracious man, is thus a living man, made partaker of this spiritual life, so as to he able to act, and move, and work towards God as his utmost end?
Answ. I will take but the Three ordinary lives that are in the world. The vegetative life, the life of Plants and Herbs. The Sensitive life, the life of Beasts. And the Rational life, the life of Man. And I will show ye, That the Essential properties of all these lives, are in a Spiritual way in the godly; and then the Argument will lie thus: If the Essential properties of all these lives be in a spiritual way in every godly man: then certainly, every godly, gracious man, is a living man, and in the state of life; living another life from the life of the world.
Answ. I will take but the Three ordinary lives that are in the world. The vegetative life, the life of Plants and Herbs. The Sensitive life, the life of Beasts. And the Rational life, the life of Man. And I wil shew ye, That the Essential properties of all these lives, are in a Spiritual way in the godly; and then the Argument will lie thus: If the Essential properties of all these lives be in a spiritual way in every godly man: then certainly, every godly, gracious man, is a living man, and in the state of life; living another life from the life of the world.
First. Take the life of plants and herbs, or of flowers, and what is the Essential property of the Vegetative life? It is to grow; no sooner hath a thing the Vegetative life, but it does grow. All plants, and herbs, and flowers, they grow, and trees they grow, because they have this Vegetative life. And so the Saints do, they grow in grace. It's said of them in the 84. Psalm, They go from strength to strength. It is an Hebraism, and it notes Augmentation; From, To, notes Augmentation. And the like Hebraisms ye have in the New-Testament. In