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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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Applyca. If this be so: What abundance of comfort is here, unto all the Saints and people of God! He only lives, (comparatively) that lives this spiritual life; the Saints and people of God they are alive. Doest thou therefore believe? art ⟨p. 10⟩[…] ⟨p. 11⟩[…] ⟨p. 12⟩thou united to Jesus Christ by the Spirit? then thou art alive, and in the state of life, made partaker of this Spiritual life. And doest thou know what it is to be made partaker of this Spiritual life? doest thou know what a life it is that now thou livest? It is a life, better and beyond the life that thou shouldest have lived in the state of innocency: for as the second Adam is more excellent than the first Adam was;1 The first man Adam was made a living soul; but the second Adam was made a quickening Spirit. So that life that comes from Christ the second Adam, is better and beyond that life that you should have had from the first Adam in the state of innocency.
Applyca. If this be so: What abundance of comfort is here, unto all the Saints and people of God! He only lives, (comparatively) that lives this spiritual life; the Saints and people of God they are alive. Doest thou therefore beleeve? art ⟨p. 10⟩〈…〉 ⟨p. 11⟩〈…〉 ⟨p. 12⟩thou united to Jesus Christ by the Spirit? then thou art alive, and in the state of life, made partaker of this Spirittual life. And doest thou know what it is to be made partaker of this Spiritual life? doest thou know what a life it is that now thou livest? It is a life, better and beyond the life that thou shouldest have lived in the state of innocency: for as the second Adam is more excellent than the first Adam was;