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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

them that are tempted in that he himself suffered being tempted Was he not as God able to succour them that are tempted Why then is it said In that he suffered being tempted he is able to succour them that are tempted There is an ability of Sufficiency and an ability of Idoniety As God indeed he is able to succour those that are tempted but by being tempted in the flesh he is able that is apt and idonious to succour those that are tempted There is an Absolute ability and a Respective ability as he is High-Priest As God indeed he was able to succour them that are tempted though he had not been tempted but he speaks of Christ here as our High-Priest and so by being tempted he is able to succor them in that way There is as I may so speak a Scientifical ability or an Experimental ability As he was God he was able in the first sense to succour 't is true but by being tempted he is able Experimentally to succour them that are tempted It is an ability of Disposition and Compassion that here he speaks of And therefore in the fift Chapter speaking of the same thing he saith concerning the High-Priest That he can have Compassion on the ignorant and those that are out of the way So then Christ by being tempted is able to sucour those that are tempted with an ability of Idoniety an Experimental ability with an ability of Compassion and Disposition and gracious Inclination And so the Observation that lies before us is this The Lord Jesus Christ Doct. is a succouring Christ to tempted souls In the former Doctrine ye heard That God suffers his own servants and dearest children to be sorely tempted Now this Doctrine holds forth the remedy Jesus Christ is a succouring Christ to tempted souls As our hearts are full of Sin So his heart is ful of Succour he is a succouring Christ His Names and Titles speak him so His Nature speaks him so His Officies His Doctrine His Life and Conversation His Death and Sufferings call him a Succouring Christ I shall not run thorow all these particulars But because men are known by their Names I will fix there a little and we shall see how all the Names and Titles of Christ call him a Succouring Christ If we search the Scripture we may observe That the Names of Satan of the Devil carry malice with them and evil against them And the Names of Jesus Christ are contrary thereunto as holding forth a Succour against all that evil that is in him who is The Evil One. Is the Devil called Satan that is an Adversary Jesus Christ is called our Friend Is Satan called Diabolus the Accuser or the Accuser of the brethren Jesus Christ is called our Advocate Is Satan called a Destroyer Jesus Christ is called our Saviour Is Satan called a Lyon that goes up and down seeking whom he may devour Jesus Christ is called a Lyon of the Tribe of Judah Is Satan called a Serpent and Old Serpent Jesus Christ is called the Brasen-Serpent Still Names of reliefe and succour answerable unto those Names of Satan We shall observe that there is no Evil in Sin but there is somewhat in the Name of Jesus Christ that speaks the contrary contrary succour Is sinne called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or a transgression of the Law Jesus Christ is called our Righteousness The Lord our Righteousness Is Sin called Folly Jesus Christ is called Wisdom The Wisdom of the Father Is sin called an Infirmity or Weakness He is called the Rock and the Rock of ages and the Arme of the Lord. Is sin called Darkness He is called Light Is sin called Pollution or Vncleanness His blood is the fountain opened for sin and for uncleanness to wash in Is sin called Death He is called Life Is there Ignorance in sin He is called our Prophet in opposition to that Is there Disorder in sin In opposition to that he is called our King to order Is there Guilt in sin In opposition to that he is called our Priest he is called our Propitiation in that place of John But in the 3. of the Romans and the 25. verse He is called our Propitiatory Whom God hath set forth to be a Propitiation so you reade it but rather a propitiatory 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Same Greek word that the Septuagint used for the Jewes Propitiatory And in that he is our Propitiation or Propitiatory this speaks him a succouring Christ Famous was the succour and reliefe that the Jewes had from their Cities of refuge and as if the holy Ghost intended the confirmation of this Truth that is now before us those Hebrew Names that were given to the Cities of refuge are given to Christ Is any of the Cities of refuge called Kedesh signifying Holy He is called Holy Holy Holy Was another City called Shechem signifying Shoulder Vpon his Shoulder is the government and the lost sheep brought home upon his Shoulder Is another City called Hebron from Society or Fellowship By him we have fellowship with the Father Is another called Golan signifying one Revealed or Manifested 'T is said of him He was Manifested in the flesh Is another City called Ramoth Things Exalted Him hath God Exalted and by him are all Exalted In the phrase of the new-Testament he is called our Father and our Brother and our Friend and our Shepheard a Hen a Lamb a Door there 's none of all his Names but speak him full of sweetness and loving disposition and succour unto poor souls But that I may the better clear up this Truth I shall deliver my self these Four waies First That Jesus Christ is able to succour tempted souls Secondly That he is willing to do it Thirdly That he is faithful in doing of it Fourthly How he doth it in the day and time of their temptation and so come to the Application First He is able to do it He is able to succour them that are tempted He is able saith our Apostle in that 17. of the Hebrews to save those that come unto God by him he is able to save them to the uttermost 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 As Satan tempts to the uttermost he is able to save to the uttermost And as they sin to the uttermost he is able to save to the uttermost A man is said to be able to do all that which he hath a commission and power from God to do The Lord Jesus Christ in the 3. of the Romans and the 25. was set forth to be a propitiation Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation He hath laid help upon one that is Mighty and that is Christ Design'd and called he is to the office of the High-Priest The proper work of the High-Priests office was to condole with relieve and succour the people against their sins And the more Eminent any High-Priest was the more in this work In the 17. of the Hebrews we find all along how abundantly he

up an Affliction between them that so these two wicked lovers may be kept asunder Thus Under temptation After temptation he succours By filling the heart with joy unspeakable and full of glory By sending the Angels to Minister As when the Devil left Christ had tempted him and left him then came the Angels and Ministred to him Every way Before temptation and In temptation and After temptation the Lord Jesus Christ is asuccouring Christ to tempted souls he is a succouring Christ Beloved he was aman of sorrows that he might be a God of succours his heart it is full of succours I come to the Application Whist I stand upon this Truth Applyca 1. me thinks I hear a solemn and gracious Invitation to all poor tempted souls to come unto Jesus Christ to come for succor There 's none of you all but labour under some temptation or other Ye have read that the Lord Christ is a succouring Christ shall I need to invite you to come unto him Ye have read how able he is and willing he is to succour His heart is bent to succour you his armes are open his bosom is open his heart is open to poor tempted souls that they may receive succour from him Oh! therefore you that are tempted Come unto Jesus Christ that you may be succoured by him Come unto Christ Come unto Christ alone You will say Quest But does he succour all that are tempted why then are any damned Some men will not come unto him Answ Ye will not come unto me that ye may have life Some come unto him but make an halfe Christ of him They won't come under great temptations then they are afraid and then they despair They won't come under small temptations then they despise But for middleing temptations those they will come to Christ for succour in and thus they make a halfe Christ of him Some come to him as to a Moses make a conditional Christ of him they must have their own Preparations and Humiliations before they come unto him or else they will not come unto him But beloved ye know what our Apostle saies in the 7. of the Hebrews He is able to save unto the uttermost those that come to God by him Those that come to God by Him if you do come unto Him he will succour But my temptation is an Old temptation Object an Ancient temptation I have gone under fears and temptations for many yeers together I may say almost my whole life and will Jesus Christ succour such a one as I am Pray what think you of the verse that goes before the text Answ reade it and consider it the 14. and the 15. verses He himself took part of the same that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death that is the Devil And at the 15. verse Deliver them from Satan that were all their life time subject to bondage That he might deliver them from Satan that were all their life time subject to bondage in fear of death and all their life time subject to bondage Art thou therefore a man or woman that hath gone up and down all thy daies in fear of death and fear of hell and been in bondage all thy life time See he came to deliver such souls such tempted souls as these are Christ came to deliver Oh! But my temptation is not a bare temptation Object there 's much affliction that is mixt withal and will he deliver those Yea you know how it was with Jacob Answ Jacob used indirect means to get the blessing Esau's heart rose against him Jacob flies for it when he was in the field in the night then Christ appears to him A ladder whose top was in Heaven the Deity the bottom on Earth the Humanity and Angels ascending and descending All the while he was in his fathers house he never had this Vision of Christ but now when he lay in the open field Christ appears for his succour by his Angels thus Oh! but my temptation is not such Object but my temptation is mixt with much Corruption I have a Proud heart an Vnclean heart a froward heart Will the Lord Jesus Christ lay such a wretched heart as mine is in his bosom Oh! will he succour such a soul as I am For answer to this Answ I pray consider these Three things with me The Lord Jesus Christ is a succouring Christ ye have read And First He will succour tempted sinners most when they are most tempted When the Child is sick and when the Child is most sick then the Mother comes forth and succours it then love sits upon the bed-side then love laies the Child in her bosom And saies he in the 66. chapter of Esay and the 13. verse As one whom his mother comforteth so will I comfort you Again He will not only succour thus but he will succour you that are tempted when you cannot succour your selves when your own thoughts cannot succour you when your own thoughts dare not succour you or when your own thoughts trample-upon your Evidences and when your own thoughts shall make a Mutiny in your hearts and set al on fire In the multitude of my thoughts thy word comforts my soul The Lord knows how to deliver in the time of temptation though you do not know and when you do not know it then he knows and then he will deliver when you know not Reade again the same place the 13. verse of the 66. of Esay As one whom his mother comforteth so will I comfort you Who are those saies he at the 5. verse Hear the word of the Lord ye that tremble his word and you that are cast out by your brethren As one whom his mother Comforteth so will I comfort you you that lie and tremble before the promise and dare not draw neer unto it As a mother comforteth so will I comfort you Thirdly He will not only succour thus but he will succour poor tempted souls with a Notwithstanding Notwithstanding all their failings Notwithstanding all their infirmities Joseph a Type of Christ his brethren sold him away he indured much misery Afterward his brethren came to want and they go down to Egypt to him and when they came there Joseph succours them Notwithstanding all their former unkindnesse I am your brother Joseph I am Joseph your brother 't is true you sold me and thus and thus you dealt by me but you are come for succour and I will succour you with a Notwithstanding So saies the Lord Jesus Christ Poor tempted soul I know how thou hast dealt by me how thou hast sold me how thou hast neglected me how thou hast crucified me but I will succour thee with a Notwithstanding Notwithstanding all thy guilt and all thy fear I will succour thee with a Notwithstanding Three great succours that the Jewes had in the wilderness Succour from the Rock that gave out water Succour against their Thirst Succour from the Mannah that came down

nothing that does so satisfie God the Father as Obedience and the more full the Obedience is the more God the Father is satisfied thereby Now it is said of our Lord and saviour Christ That in this great sacrifice upon the Crosse he was Obedient He was Obedient even to the death of the Cross That he that did make the Law should come down from Heaven and be subject to the Law what Obedience was here Obedient to the Death Yea unto the Deaths in the plural Number And he made his grave with the sinners and his Deaths was with the rich He made his grave with the wicked and with the rich had his Deaths Isaiah 5● ver 9. It is in the Plural Number in the Hebrew though in your English translation it is in the Singular As if the holy Ghost had called death the Second death that our Lord Christ had in some measure suffered For if you consider things truly and rightly I beleeve you will find that our Lord and Saviour Christ when he died and was in his agony he did not only indure the first but the torments of the second death He overcame no more than he submitted to he overcame death by submitting to death Now he overcame the second death also and therefore in some measure submitted to the torments of it so far as he was capable Look what the first Adam should have indured for his sin in the fall that the second Adam now did indure in some measure for to take it off The day that thou eatest thou shalt die the death It was not barely the corporal and outward death but it was the second death If our Lord and Saviour Christ did not indure the torments of the second death the wrath of God upon his soul why did he sweat drops of blood and tremble and shake so when he came to die There is many Saints and Martyrs when they come to die they go skipping and leaping and rejoycing and our Lord and Saviour when he came to die he sweats drops of blood surely there was more than an outward death Oh! the wrath of God and the torments of the second death was upon his soul Thus obedient he was and this obedience of his it was volontary for he needed not to have died but he saw that God the father was dishonoured by mans sin and that poor man would be lost and rather than that should be he does volontarily offer himself unto this Obedience Loe I come saies he in the volum of the book it is written of me I delight to do thy will and thy Law is within my heart Psal 40.7 8. Mark what an expression there is in that Psalm 't is spoken concering Christ as is plainly interpreted by the Apostle in the 10. of the Hebrews at the 6. verse Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire mine eares hast thou opened or bored The Apostle when he translates these words he translates them thus My body hast thou prepared But reade them as they are here in the Psalm Sacrifice and offring thou didst not desire mine eare hath thou bored That as when a servant was willing to stay with his Master and to do him yet more service the servants eare was to be bored So saies the Lord Christ I am as willing to do this work to be thus obedient as a servant whose eare is bored is willing to stay with his master And mine eare hast thou bored saies he ah here 's obedience here 's obedience this now did infinitly satisfie God the Father In so much that ye may see what is said in that same 5. of the Ephesians and the 2. verse Who hath loved us and given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet smelling savour The whol world it was ful of a stench before and the Lord was displeased with man before but now when Christ comes and offers up this sacrifice he did thereby give full satisfction unto God the father for it was a sweet swelling-savour unto God the Father So that thus the Father he was fully satisfied To this I shall ad one word When the Lord Jesus Christ offered up himself a sacrifice unto God the Father and had our sins laid upon him he did given more perfect satisfaction unto Divine justice for our sins than if you and I and all of us had been damned in Hell unto all eternity For a Creditor is more satisfied if his debt be paid him all down at once than if it be paid by the week A poor man that cannot pay all down will pay a groat a week or sixpence a week but 't is more satisfaction to the Creditor to have all paid at once Should we have been all damned we should have been but paying the debt a little and a little and a little but when Christ paid it he paid it all down to God the Father Had we gone to Hell and been damned for ever we had alwaies been satisfying of God I but God had never been satisfied but now when Christ makes satisfaction God was satisfied The Creditor if he be a merciful and a good man is more truly satisfied where the Debter is spared he does not desire that the Debter should be cast into prison and there lie and rot but he is better satisfied with the sparing of the Debter let me have but my Money and so the Debter be spared I am willing nay I desire it saies the good Creditor Now if all we had bin cast into everlasting burnings indeed the debt should have been a paying but there the Debter had been lost But not when Christ comes and makes satisfaction unto Divine justice Ah! poor man is redeemed here is the Debter spared And therefore the Lord he is infinitly more satisfied by the satisfaction that Christ made upon the Cross for our sins than if all we had gone to Hell and been damned to all eternity Oh! what a glorious and blessed satisfaction did this our High-Priest make unto God the Father But you will say then Quest If the Lord Christ made this full satisfaction unto God the Father how is it that Beleevers many of them have their sins and debts standing upon the score still in their Consciences so perplexed in regard of sin as if there were no satisfaction at all made Luther cals this aspect of sin A sacralegious aspect Answ and beholding of sin As now saies he If a man take out of an holy place some goods and bring them into his owne house This is sacraledge So for me to go and take my sins From Christ and lay them in mine own bosome this is sacraledge saies Luther But the reason of it is this Because that men do not study this Truth but was ignorant of it As suppose that a man do owe three or four hundred pound to a shop-keeper for wares and commodities that he hath taken up there a friend comes and he payes the debt crosses the book but the