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A77355	The works of William Bridge, sometime fellow of Emanuel Colledge in Cambridge; now preacher of the Word of God at Yarmouth. The first volume. Viz. I. The great Gospel-mysterie of the saints comfort and holinesse, opened and applyed from Christs priestly office. II. Satans power to tempt; and Christs love to, and care of his people under temptation. III. Thankfulnesse required in every condition.	Bridge, William, 1600?-1670.; Yates, John, d. ca. 1660.; Greenhill, William, 1591-1671.; Adderley, William.	1649 (1649)	Wing B4445; Thomason E471_1; ESTC R6919	182,218	262

takes that lovingly that comes from love whatever it be though it be never so weak Well But suppose that a mans Duty Quest or Service be performed with many failings infirmities Hardness of heart Straightness of spirit distracting thoughts this is my case Oh! is there any acceptance for such a Duty as this is will the Lord Jesus Christ the great High-Priest take such a Duty as this is and carry it in unto God the Father and is there any acceptance for such a Duty as this We know how it was with Nicodemus Answ and the woman that came trembling and touched the hem of Christs garment And we must know that in every duty that we do performe there are Two things There is the Sacrifice and there is the Obedience in offering the Sacrifice Though the Sacrifice may be imperfect yet your Obedience in offering the Sacrifice may be perfect with Gospel-perction 'T is in regard of our Duties as in regard of our Persons never think that God will deal otherwise with our Duties than he deals with our Persons The Lord came and justified the ungodly when he justified you He comes and he finds a poor soul in a sinful condition he imputes his righteousness unto that soul and justifies an ungodly one not justifying him so as to go on in sin it is the word of the Apostle He justifies the ungodly So the Lord comes and finds a great deal of ungodliness in your Duty and he imputes his righteousness unto that Duty and he justifies the Duty which in your eye is an ungodly duty This indeed is the wonder of all that he should deal thus by us For did we ever hear of any garment that would make the crooked straight If a man have a crooked back come and put velvet upon him silk scarlet upon him it may make him handsomer but it will not change his back and make him strait But when the Lord Christ comes he finds all our souls crook-back't as it were and he puts on his righteousness and this garment makes that that was crooked to become straite it makes the very crook-back't Duty to become a strait Duty Did we ever hear or reade of any Seal that when it was set upon the wax would change the wax into gold or into silver like the seal it may leave it's impression but it does not change the wax into it's own mettall If there be a stamp set upon silver or gold the mettal remains as it was before But if a stamp be set upon brasse it don't make it silver or if it be set upon silver it don't make it gold I but when the Lord Jesus Christ comes unto a Duty and sets his own stamp and his own righteousness upon a Duty that which was brasse before full of failings and much unrighteousness before changes it into gold into silver He only hath the Philosophers stone as I may so speak all that Christ touches turns into gold turns all our Duties into gold and when he hath done so he presents them unto God the Father This our great High-Priest doth And this is the Fourth thing But how doth all this make for our Comfort Quest 5 or for our Grace Surely Ans we cannot but see already how it doth make for our Comfort Is it not a comfortable thing for a man to know that his Duties are not lost that his Prayer is not lost that his Hearing the word is not lost that his Searching the Scriptures is not lost that his Conference and Communion is not lost A man is unwilling to lose any thing and the more precious it is the more unwilling to lose it If we have a venture at Sea we are unwilling to lose our venture and the greater our venture is the more unwilling to lose it If a man have but a quarter of his Estate in a vessel he is unwilling to lose it more unwilling if he have half his Estate most if he have all and his children there in the vessel too Now as men are unwilling to lose their worldly venture So a man that is sensible of his soul is very unwilling to lose his souls venture to lose his Prayers and to lose all his Duties Friends here 's an Insuring-Office The Lord Jesus Christ is our great Insurer in this respect and he doth as he is our High-Priest offering up our Gifts unto God the Father assure us that none is lost not any lost Indeed if we had such an High-Priest as were not able to take notice of the Circumstances of our Duties much might be lost but this our Lord Christ our great High-Priest doth not only take notice of our Duty what ever it be but of all the Circumstances of our Duties and so presents them unto God the Father in the full latitude in all the gracious Circumstances of them Therefore saith he unto the Angel of the Church of Pergamos in the 2. of the Revelation and the 13. verse I know thy works Why but Lord though thou doest know our works yet it may be thou doest not take notice where our work is done Lord it may be thou doest take notice of my Prayer but Lord thou doest not take notice where I dwell and live and in what family I do pray unto thee Lord I am in a wicked and a wretched family that does oppose Prayer Lord may be thou doest take notice of my Prayer but thou doest not take notice of this Circumstance Yes saies he I know thy works and where thou dwellest even where Satans seat is Well and thou holdest fast my Name and hast not denied my faith even in those daies wherein Antipas was my faithful martyr who was slain among you where Satan dwelleth It 's remarkable The Lord Jesus Christ takes notice not only of our Duty but of every Circumstance of the Duty and so he presents it unto God the Father not only the Duty but the Circumstance of the Duty and therefore there is not a haire of your Duty lost not one graine of your Duty lost is not this an unspeakable Comfort unto a poor soul that it knows that nothing is lost of all the Prayers it hath made unto God that there is no losse at all The very pantings of our hearts at the Throne of grace are received into the bosom of our Heavenly Father Further Is it not a Comfort for a man to have liberty to go unto the Mercy-Seat and there for to meet with God 'T is said of wicked men That they sit in the seat of the scornful There is it seems then the seat of the scornful and there is a Mercy-Seat A Drunkard when he is with his drunken company and sits upon the Ale-bench it may be scorning and jeering at some of the godly making songs on them he is set upon the seat of the scornful that is a cursed seat I but there is another seat there is a Mercy-Seat and there is never a poor Saint and Child of God

is never more at work for thee than when thou art most tempted and assaulted by Satan What a mighty incouragement is here to al that hear the word of the Lord to get into Jesus Christ But if I be godly and al this be true Why should I question the love of God towards me in the time of my temptation Beloved ye know it in your Experience ye are never more apt for to question the love of Christ than in temptation and yet Christs love is never more at work for you than in temptation Oh! what an unworthy answering of Christs love is here Again If I be Godly Why should I not be contented and quiet under all my temptations though they be never so great Christ prayeth for me Christs love is most at work now I am most assaulted his bowels then yern towards me Yea If I be Godly Why should I not with Paul Triumph over all temptations and make my boast of Christ and say as he did Now know I that nothing shall separate me from the love of God in Christ not Principalities nor Powers nor Devils nor Temptations for when I am most tempted Christ is most at work in love for me Yea beloved in the Lord why should we not all warm our hearts with this love of Jesus Christ it's a mercy that the Lord Christ will cast but an eye or a look upon a poor soul under temptation that is a mercy I but I tell ye more than so Christ does not only cast an eye and a look upon a poor tempted soul but his love and mercy is never more at work than when you are most assaulted and tempted by Satan Ah what grace and heart-warming love is here If I be Godly again upon this account why should I give over so soon and lay down my weapon in time of temptation If a City be beleaguer'd besieged and know that help will come they will not give over And though I am thus besieged and thus tempted help will certainly come for Christ hath prayed why should I give over then in time of temptation And if these things be so if there be so much love in the heart of Christ towards poor tempted souls then beloved should we not all run to Christ in the time and hour of our temptation run unto him by prayer It may be there are some that will say Quest If Christ pray for us in time of temptation what need we pray But I pray look into this chapter Answ and you will find our Saviour carries it otherwise In the text saies he But I have prayed for thee that thy faith fall not At the 46. verse Why sleep ye saies he rise and pray lest ye enter into temptation So that though he had said That he prayed for them yet he cals upon them also to pray It 's good praying my beloved when mercy is coming and mercy is then coming when Christ is praying and when you are most tempted then Christ is at prayer But to end all What ever your temptations therefore be you that are the servants of God still think ye hear Christ saying to ye Man Woman be of good comfort I have prayed for you though thy temptations be very great I have prayed for thee thought thou canst not pray for thy self as thou wouldst I have prayed for thee when flesh fails and eyes fail and heart fails and all fails yet remember this Christ prayeth for you in the time of your temptation Christ prayeth for you think that ye hear Christ speaking to ye in the time of your temptation for certainly he does it as well to his Disciples now as he did to his Disciples then he does speak and say Be of good comfort man or woman though thy temptations be great yet I have prayed for thee and thy faith shall not fail FINIS THANKFVLNES Required in every CONDITION 1 THESSALONIANS 5.18 In every thing give thanks Preached at Margrets New-fish street March 23. 1645 for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you WHAT is written to the Thessalonians is written for our instruction What they are commanded as Christians we are commanded as Christians In the latter part of this Chapter several Exhortations were given to them among the rest this is one In which ye have The Exhortation it self In every thing give thanks And the Reason in forcing that Exhortation for this is the wil of God in Christ Tesus conerning you In every thing give thanks In Prosperity and in Adversity whether things go well or whether they go ill In every thing give thanks He had said before verse 16 17. Rejoyce evermore Pray continually Unto those Exhortations he adds no such Reason as here Because it may seem strange that a man should give thanks in every thing he adds also for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you So that plainly here lies this Observation or Truth upon the words It is the will of God Doct. even our father that we should be thankfull to him in every thing When we are Full it will be granted that then we are to give thanks to God Deuteronomy the 8. and the 10. But ye are not only to give thanks when ye are Full but when ye are Empty not only when ye are strong but when ye are weak not only when you are delivered from the hands of your Enemy but when you are delivered into the hands of your Enemy Job 1.21 Therefore Job saies The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away blessed be his Name Job was plundered by the Enemy and yet he does blesse the Lord Job was emptied of a full Estate and yet he does blesse the Lord Job had lost his dear Children and yet he does blesse the Lord Job in a great measure given up into the hands of Satan and yet he blesses the Lord for which he is commended So then It is our duty and the will of God our Father that we should not only be thankful but we should be thankful in every thing For Reas 1 there is alwaies excellency enough in God and Christ to entertain your Thankfulnesse to draw out your Thankfulnesse and Praises Indeed there is a formal or notional difference between Praising God and giving thanks to God Praises respect the excellencies of God himself Thankfulness respect the benefits we receive from God I praise God when I honour him for the Excellency that is in him I am thankful to God when I blesse him for those benefits I receive from him But now in Scripture these are put one for the other ordinarily and whatsoever our condition be whether high or low rich or poor full or empty there is enough Excellency in Christ for to draw out our Praises and therefore in every thing we are to be Thankful There is no condition so sad Reas 2 but somewhat is good that is mingled with it No darknesse so dark but-some light withal No misery so miserable

see that the graces of the Saints increase the more by temptation and by spiritual oppression who would not say Oh! what mercy and what power is here God suffered the Isralites to be vexed by the Egyptians That the Isralites might not learn their manners and their Superstitions They were very apt to drink-in their manners to imitate to follow them Notwithstanding all the ill usage that the Israelites had at the hand of the Egyptians they were very apt to learn their manners had they had better usage how would they have drunk them in much more then Beloved God would not have us to learn the manners of Satan we are apt to drink them in too much notwithstanding all the hard dealing that we have from our temptations that do come from Satan had we better entertainment how should our souls mingle and incorporate with those temptations God suffered the Israelites to be vexed by the Egyptians That so they might be provoked against them to cut them off and destroy them utterly We never cut off an Enemy and destroy him utterly till we be provoked and we are provoked by the ill usage that we have at their hands God would have Satan destroyed for this cause was Christ manifested in the flesh that he might destroy the works of Satan And what Christ did for us he doth work in us and we will not destroy him till we be provoked and therefore God is pleased to let us have such hard dealing and suffering work from the hand of temptation that we may be the more provoked against him God suffered the Israelites to be vexed by the Egyptians That so they might long for Canaan the land of rest And why doth God suffer his people to suffer thus by their temptations but that they might cry out for help and for the land of rest as David Oh! that I had wings like a dove for then would I fly away and be at rest If the children of Israel had not suffered thus from the hands of the Egyptians in all likelihood they would have returned to Egypt much more than they did They made them a Captain to return again notwithstanding all the hardness that they underwent in Egypt but had the children of Israel had good usage in Egypt how would they have returned again thither Beloved we are apt to return again to folly you that are the servants of God too apt to return to folly notwithstanding all the hard usage that you have from the hand of your temptation how apt and ready are you to retturn to folly now God loves you and would not have you to return again and therefore that you might not return to your garlike onyons and fleshpots again he suffers this Spiritual Phatoah thus to follow you and lie hard upon you in these temptations And thus you see what a glorious design of love God hath even in the suffering part of his childrens temptations Gods own children do suffer thus by the hand of a Temptation But you will say Object In the Third place to answer the Objection If Gods own people his dearest children be sorely tempted yea suffer under the hand of a temptation how is that true which you have in the 1 Epistle of John the 5. chapter and the 18. verse Whosoever is born of God sins not he that is begotten of God keeps himself and that wicked one toucheth him not the Devil toucheth him not and if the Devil does not so much as touch him how can this be true that he suffers thus by the hand of his temptation For answer hereunto ye must know Answ that this word Touching in Scripture phrase besides the litteral sense sometimes notes an Hurting or Harming of one So in the 105. Psalm and the 15. verse Touch not mine anointed Which is explained in the following words and do my Prophets no harm We reade of Christs Touching and the Devils Touching Christ touching those that were sick and he cured them with his touch it was an healing curing touch the touch of Christ And we reade of the Devils touching So he speaks unto God that he would touch Job that is that he would break him and break all his Estate Christ touch is an healing touch curing touch but Satans touch is a destroying touch a breaking touch Now though God suffers his own children to be tempted yea and to suffer by the hand of a temptation yet notwithstanding the evil one touches him not so as to harm him to hurt him But in the conclusion so as to heal and to cure him which is no touching Again This same word Touching in Scripture Phrase sometimes notes Fellowship and Communion and so when the Apostle forbids the Corinthians fellowship and communion with Idolaters saith he Be ye Separate and touch no unclean thing Touching there noting Communion and Fellowship with them in their Worship don't in the least measure have any communion with them So now although it pleases God to suffer Satan thus to vex his children with temptation yet notwithstanding they have not fellowship or Communion with him Satan knocks at their door but they don't frequently and ordinarily open and let him in so as to sup with them Christ stands at their door and knocks and they open and he comes in and sups with them and they with him they have fellowship with the Father and they have fellowship with Jesus Christ but they have not fellowship with the Devil they don't delight in him they don't converse with him they have not this fellowship with him and therefore though they meet with temptation yea and though they suffer under temptation yet in this respect the evil one touches not but suffer they do And so I have cleared the Point God suffers his own dear children to be sorely tempted yea and to suffer under the hand of a temptation I come to the Application If this be so Applyca Then why do you that are the Servants of God question Gods love to you and call your own condition into question because of your temptations or because of the hard things that you meet withall from the hand of your temptation Oh! saies one if God loved me I should never be thus tempted I should never suffer such hard things by temptation as now I do was there ever any of Gods Children tempted thus Surely this cannot stand with grace But was not Jesus Christ tempted Yes But I am tempted many times to doubt of my Child-ship whether I be the Child of God Son of God I or no. And was not Christ thus There were Two special times of Christs temptation Once when he entered upon the Ministry Once when he went out of the world and you shall see how at both these times he was followed with this temptation In the 4. of Matthew there you reade of the first and in the combate twice If thou be the Son of God saies the Devil putting an If upon his Sonship and again If thou be

Peter Object but my faith doth constantly fail Peter denied and his faith failed in the exercise as to one Act but my faith doth constantly fail in time of temptation I was heretofore more able to beleeve in the time of my temptation than now I am my faith is failed and it constantly fails and therefore I fear that the Lord Christ will not pray for me in the time of my temptation Well But if you be more able to relye upon meer free-grace Answ than ye have been heretofore then your faith is not less but increased rather If you be now more able to be contented with your condition than you were heretofore If you can let God and Christ alone to use his own means about you If you can leave the Events and successes of things more unto God than you could heretofore then your faith is not failed but rather increased Man or woman if that you are able now to take those hints of a word which you could not heretofore If your judgment be more setled in the Truth If you be more contented to suffer now for the Cause and the way of God than you were heretofore Then thy faith is not failed but thy faith is increased rather and so thou comest within the compasse of the Lord Christs prayer Oh! Object but yet will some say I have sinned greatly very much I have been a great sinner and therefore I fear that the Lord Jesus Christ will let me alone to wrestle with my temptations all alone and will not pray and intercede for me in the time and hour of my temptation Well Answ I must yet say again to you Hast thou sinned more than this Peter did when he denied his Lord and Master Yet Christ prayed for him and his prayer took and prevailed Have you sinned more than Jerusalem did Oh! Jerusalem thou that stonest the Prophets saies Christ when they put him to death And yet if you look into the 1. of the Acts you shall find that Christ after his Resurrection bids his Disciples for to stay and wait at Jerusalem and not stir from thence and preach the Gospel and mercy and free-grace in Jerusalem Hast thou man or woman that makest this objection sinned more than those that did put Christ to death that run him into his body with a spear that nailed him upon the crosse hast thou sinned more than these Ye know our Lord and Saviour when he was upon the crosse he prayed for them Oh! Father forgive them they know not what they do But Lord these are thine opposers these are persecutors and they persecute thee to death Well be it so saies Christ I know what I do and I know whom I pray for Father forgive them they know not what they do Oh! what grace and mercy and love is here Comfort yea Comfort unto all the Disciples of Jesus Christ when ye are in temptation the Lord Christ is at prayer for you And remember the Doctrine Never is his love and mercy more at work for ye than when Satan is most busie about ye to tempt ye most What comfort is here This was that in part that comforted the Martyrs in the Primitive times ye reade of very great comforts that the Martyrs had in the Primitive times those times next after Christ I have desired to consider what it was especially that bore up their hearts under all those persecutions And Turtullian pitches upon this as one thing We consider saies he the case of Peter Satan desired to winnow him Christ prayed for him Here were saies Turtullian two requests before God the Father One was the request of Satan and another was the request of Christ Now the Son having more credit with God the Father than Satan his request must needs prevail So saies he Satan hath desired for to tempt and to winnow us and persecute us but the Lord Jesus Christ hath requested for us There are two requests before God the Father There 's Satans request to winnow us and there 's the Sons request praying for us Now therefore seeing that the Son hath more credit with God the Father than Satan therefore are we assured that we shall be upheld and our faith shall not fail And so may you also This is matter of great comfort unto all the Saints You will say Indeed it is matter of great comfort Quest but is there no Duty that this Truth cals for at our hands Here is much comfort but what is that Duty that this Truth cals for Much every way If I be an Ungodly man Answ what a mighty incouragement is here for to get into Jesus Christ that I may be in the number of the true Disciples So long as a man is out of Christ not a true Disciple of Jesus Christ Satan may come and tempt and do what he wil with him and no Christ by to help Satan could not hurt or touch or tempt Job but he must ask leave But Satan went to the Sabeans and brought in them upon Jobs Estate and he did not ask leave for that they were in his power He ruleth in the children of disobedience Daniel was in the Lyons-den and they devouered him not their mouthes were stopt and they could not hurt him But when the Enemies were thrown into the Lyons they crack'd and crush'd their bones before they came to the ground If a godly man one that is a true Disciple of Jesus Christ if he be in a den with these Lyons Devils their mouths shall be stopt they shall not swallow him But oh for wicked men that are not in Christ these Lyons they crush their bones every day they crush their bones and a wicked man may say as Saul did The Philistims are upon me and God is departed from me So a wicked man that is not in Christ he may cry out and say Oh! temptations are upon me and Christ is departed from me I have none of Christ to help me as for the Saints and those that are true Disciples of Jesus Christ they have Christ at hand though they fall Christ is by for to help them up And Christ himself measures out all their temptations and Christ assists them and helps them but Oh! as for me I am all alone in my temptations I poor soul am all alone in my temptations Ah! who would be a Drunkard still who would be a Swearer still who would be an Unclean wanton still who would be a lyar and a Theevish servant still Let me tell ye that while ye go on in these sins you are out of Christ Poor soul a Swearer a Drunkard a common Lyar a Sabbath-breaker a Wanton out of Christ and thy temptations fall heavily upon thee the Lord knowes thou art all alone in the time of thy temptations Oh! but get into Jesus Christ get into Jesus Christ to be in the number of Christs true Disciples and when thou art tempted the Lord prayes for thee yea and the love and mercy of Christ

of your Interest in Christ and Union with him Assurance that all comes from love Assurance that all things work together for your good and then if the Tempter come and saies Wilt thou praise the Lord dost thou not see how all thy acquaintance hath left thee and all thy friends left thee you will answer again I but all this is for my good and all this comes out of love and so what ever fals out you will be thankful in every thing Desire not Much he that desires much will expect much and he that expects much he won't be content with little much lesse Thankful for every thing Jacob was a plain-hearted man he desired little he was content with less he was Thankful for every thing So must you be And if you do desire much let your eye be as much upon what ye have as upon what ye want The Covetous rich man having a desire to have more is not Thankful for what he hath if you come to borrow money of him saies he I have need to borrow of you I am a very beggar I have nothing His eye is so much upon what he would have he forgets what he hath So many times it fals out spiritually let your eye therefore be as well upon what you have as upon what you want Lastly Be sure of this that you maintain the sense of your own unworthiness No man more Thankful than David no man more sensible of his unworthiness than David Continually thankful Continually sensible of his unworthines There is a Two-fold unworthines Creature-unworthiness and Sinful-unworthiness Accordingly a Two-fold sence of unworthiness One that arises from the apprehension of creature-unworthines of the emptines that is in us as Creatures And another that arises from sense of guilt of sin See them both in the 8. Psalm The Psalmist there praises the Lord O Lord our God verse the 1. how excellent is thy Name in all the Earth when I consider the heavens the work of thy fingers what is man that thou art mindful of him and the Son of man that thou visitest him He praises the Lord this Thankfulness was raised from the sense of unworthiness it was Creature-unworthiness Lord what is man O Lord our God how excellent is thy Name in all the earth Lord what is man Look into the 116. Psalm and there ye find the Psalmist praising God upon the sence of unworthiness too Gracious is the Lord and righteous yea our God is merciful verse the 12. What shall I render to the Lord for all his benefits towards me here 's his Thankfulness it was raised upon sence of unworthiness But what unworthiness Sinful unworthiness verse the 11. I said in my hast all men are lyars what shall I render to the Lord for all his benefits towards me He was sensible of his own unworthiness and it was a sinful unworthiness I said in my hast all men are lyars yet God is gracious to me What shall I render to the Lord for all his benefits So now it will be with you if ye can but keep the sense of your own unworthiness you wil say I was a wretched and a great sinner and though I have but little in the world yet any thing is too much for one that was such a great sinner as I was you will be Thankful for every thing in every thing Thankful maintain but this Beloved ye see how in all these troubles of these times God hath given us our lives for a prey As the Lord said concerning Job Only spare his life Job 2.6 So hath the Lord said concerning us spare their lives God did not deal so by our Saviour Christ when our Saviour Christ came into the world he met with hard dealing from wicked men and his life went for it he did not say Only spare his life his life went for it You have more in this respect than our dear Saviour had you have your lives given you for a prey in these evil times our Saviour had not Shall we not then be Thankfull in every thing having more than our Saviour had in this respect shall we not be Thankful for any thing for any thing that God gives us shall we not now be Thankful How many are there that walke directly contrary unto this Truth that I have spread before you In every thing Thankful and they in nothing Thankful in nothing contented Husband godly Children hopeful Estate comfortable and yet never contented Servants cannot please Children cannot please friends cannot please never contented Oh! is this a duty to be in every thing Thankful how do they lie in a sin and the breach of this commandement that are in nothing contented never pleased Beloved I don't now come to call for contentment and patience and quietness under Affliction but for Thankfulness and not for thankfulness only when all goes well with you but for Thankfulness in every thing Oh! therefore let us return unto our own souls consider how it hath been with us If there be ever a discontented man or woman reade this Sermon consider this Scripture The Lord saies be in every thing Thankful and thou hast been in nothing Thankful in nothing contented in thy condition Oh! how will you answer it at the great day Let me leave this Exhortation with you in your bosoms the Lord knows into what condition we may come whether into Affliction or Persecution or Desertion or of Temptation Remember here lies your duty before you lay it up in your hearts 'T is the will of God even our Father that we should be Thankful to him in every thing not in some things not when things go well only when we have Victory but in all things Thankful In every thing give Thanks unto God for this is the will of God our Father concerning you FINIS THE TABLE Of the First VOLVMNE A Absolution ABsolution of sin how obtained by Christ Page 90 Ability Difference between ability of sufficiency and ability of Idoniety Page 119 Acceptance see Duties Affliction Affliction and temptation used promiscuously in the New Testament Page 103 See Temptation Agreement There was an Agreement made between God and Christ before the world was made Page 57 Anointed Christ is anointed to be our High-priest Page 45 Antichrist Antichrist labours to derogate most from the priestly office of Christ Page 5 Argument The greatest argument to make us walk closely with God in Christ Page 50 Attributes Those Attributes of Christ which are most beneficial to the Saints are most opposed by the world Page 4 The same Attributes are given to the Devil for evil that are given to God for good Page 244 Avoid see Temptations B Bless What Christ doth when he blesseth men Page 80 Christ blesseth as God blesseth Page 82 Christs willingness to blesse men Page 83 How Christ blesseth ibid Christ doth not blesse as man blesseth Page 84 Whom Christ blesseth Page 86 Blessing What will make a man to be alwaies blessing