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A29369 Bridge's remains, being VIII sermons ... by that learned and judicious divine, Mr. William Bridge ... Bridge, William, 1600?-1670. 1673 (1673) Wing B4459; ESTC R18600 124,015 222

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it be good or whether it be evil c Wherefore Jeremiah did intreat the Lord for them but they would not do what they said Whereupon said Jeremiah ver 20. Ye dissembled in your hearts when ye said We will do according to all that the Lord our God shall say So that there is a lying submission whereby men in affliction and distress do feignedly submit and resign themselves up to God Possibly a man may hear that the onely way to have his will is to resign up his will unto God Now that he may have his will he will resign it up unto God This is but to serve himself of God But where this work is truly done it is done with the greatest plainness of heart and the most sincerity Seventhly As this work is not to be done feignedly So it is not to be done sinfully but in well-doing Some say The will of the Lord be done and they say they do resign and give up themselves unto God But if ye look into 1 Pet. 4.19 he will tell you That this work is to be performed in well-doing Let him commit his soul to God in well-doing as unto a faithful Creatour And thus ye see how this work is to be done rightly It is to be done Solemnly and not sleightly Freely and firstly not forcedly and lastly Wholly and totally and not partially and by halves Absolutely and not conditionally upon Articles Actively and not in a way of submission onely With much plainness and sincerity And in well-doing Quest Well but when is this work to be done Answ It is to be done daily Once done and yet ever doing But there are some times wherein this work is to be done especially but most especially at our death First I say this work is to be done daily Sometimes a man is to resign up his will unto God in reference to his Health Sometimes in reference to his outward Estate ●ometimes in reference to his Relations Sometimes in reference to his spiritual Condition But as the Psalmist speaks Trust in the Lord at all times So I say we are to resign up selves and Souls and Will to God at all times Yet secondly There are some special times and seasons which do call for this work I 'le name Five First When a man doth convert and turn unto God Then he is in a special manner to resign and give up himself unto God What wilt thou have me do said Paul at his first Conversion The Priests that offered Sacrifices unto God were first offered themselves After Conversion we do daily offer our Sacrifices to God At the first therefore we are to offer up our selves unto him Secondly When a man is called forth unto any great work or service or employment especially if it be beyond his own strength and power Then he is to resign and give up himself unto God So Moses did So David did So all the Worthies of God have ever done when they have been called out to any great employments Third●y When a man is in any great danger distress and affliction Then he is to resign and give up himself and will unto God If the Lord have any pleasure in me says David he will bring me back again yet if not his will be done So Joab when he saw that enemies were round about him Let us fight says he for the cities of our God c. and the will of the Lord be done Fourthly ●hen a man doth joyn himself unto the Lord and his people Then he is especially to resign and give up himself unto God So the Churches of Macedonia did for says Paul 2 Cor. 8.5 And this they did not as we hoped but first gave their own selves to the Lord and unto us by the will of God Fifthly When a man hath sinned greatly and wandred from the Lord and from his holy Profession and doth return again unto God Then he is in a special manner to resign and give up himself unto God The same thing is to be done in our renewed as in our first Conversion And if ye look into 2 Chron. 30. ye shall find that when all Israel had gone astray Hezekiah exhorting them to return unto the Lord he saith v. 8. Now be ye not stiff-necked as your fathers were but yield your selves unto the Lord Margent Give you your hand unto God When we have stollen any thing from God it is our duty to restore it Have we therefore in our first Conversion given our selves unto God and afterward by our sins taken them away ag●in whenever we do return unto God then it is our duty to restore and so to resign up our selves unto him And thus now ye see what those special times and seasons are which call for this work at our hands The times of Conversion c●lls for it The time of special Employment calls for it The time of great danger calls for it The time of joyning to the Lord and his people calls for it And the times of our returns unto God after wandrings calls for it But Thirdly Though we are to resign our selves unto God in such times as these are specially Yet most especially we are to do it when we come to suffer for then God is ready to receive us Exod. 19.4 Then men are ready to destroy us Psal 10.14 The poor committeth himself to thee When we come to dye For then did Christ do it especially Then the Soul is to return unto him that gave it It doth not dye or sleep with the body in the grave but it returns unto him that gave it This day shalt thou be with me in Paradise saith Christ And the Apostle tells us That Paradise is the third heavens and the place of Glory 2 Cor. 12. Paul saith I desire to be dissolved and to be with Christ which is best of all How can a man be said to be with Christ presently upon his death if the soul dyes and sleeps with the body Yea says he I am in a strait in respect to you I desire to live in respect of my self I desire to dye But if the soul sleeps and dyes with the body why should not he desire to live in regard of himself When the man dyes then the soul and spirit returneth to him that gave it When a man therefore dyes it is fit to resign and give up his soul unto God Secondly When a man dyes then if his soul goes to Heaven it is to pass through the Enemies Countrey for Satan is the Prince of the air The Air is full of Devils the soul therefore hath need of a good Convoy to pass through this Enemies Countrey And how should a man get this Convoy but by resigning and giving up his soul into the hands of God Thirdly When a man dyes Then he launches forth into the Ocean of Eternity And as God is the disposer of our times for the present so of our Eternity also Fit it is that we should acknowledge his