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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. What is the Essential property of the Sensitive life, of the life of Beasts, of the life of Birds? (for they live another life than the life of Trees, and the life of Flowers, and of Herbs) what is the Essential Property of that kind of life? The Essential property of that kind of life is, To be sensible of good or evil suitable unto them. And so the saints and people of God are: they are sensible also, they are not past feeling, as tis said of wicked men, but they are sensible of things suitable to them. Indeed, they have not the sense and feeling of things as they would, or do desire: but there are Three tings which the Saints and people of God are all sensible of. They are sensible of their Sins; especially if they be committed against their knowledge. They are sensible of the Hiding of Gods face from them. And they are sensible of the Churches miseries.
Secondly. What is the Essential property of the Sensitive life, of the life of Beasts, of the life of Birds? (for they live another life than the life of Trees, and the life of Flowers, and of Herbs) what is the Essential Property of that kind of life? The Essential property of that kind of life is, To be sensible of good or evil sutable unto them. And so the saints and people of God are: they are sensible also, they are not past feeling, as tis said of wicked men, but they are sensible of things sutable to them. Indeed, they have not the sence and feeling of things as they would, or do desire: but there are Three tings which the Saints and people of God are all sensible of. They are sensible of their Sins; especially if they be committed against their knowledge. They are sensible of the Hiding of Gods face from them. And they are sensible of the Churches miseries.
They are very sensible of their sins: 1And therefore Paul cries out, O wretched man that I am! I find a law in my member: O wretched man that I am! Ye read in other places of his Epistles, he says, He will rejoice concerning his Afflictions & Infirmities. He tells us how he was stoned, & how he was imprisoned, scourged, whipped: & in all that he does not cry out, O wretched man that I am! But now finding the law in his members, he is more sensible of that than of any affliction; here now he cries out, O wretched man that I am, who shall deliver!