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A29368	The freeness of the grace and love of God to believers discovered in reference to 1. their services and suffering, 2. their consolations, and 3. their salvation and eternal glory : together with the excellency of the fear of God, the goodness and pleasantness of brotherly love, the wisdom of hearing the voice of the rod, repentance the only way to prevent judgements / delivered in several sermons by the late reverend and faithful minister of Christ, Mr. William Bridg ...	Bridge, William, 1600?-1670.	1671 (1671)	Wing B4454; ESTC R19668	79,842	192

you even so ought you to love one another how was that why Christ loved you freely in opposition to all the injuries you had done unto him It is said 1 Joh. 1.6 7. If we say we have fellowship with him and walk in darkness we lie and do not the truth but if we walk in the light as he is in the light we have fellowship one with another and in John 3.16 For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son Yea Christ hath so loved us that he hath laid down his life for us and we are to love as Christ loved even to the laying down of our lives for our brethren Fifthly If your love be true it ought to be without restriction yea and without all dissimulation I say you are to love without any restriction the only measure of love is to know no measure and you are to love without any dissimulation yea and your love ought to be also without degeneration many do begin to love spiritually but end carnally but true love is without restriction dissimulation or degeneration Sixthly If your love be true and such as it ought to be then it will never be bought neither can it be sold Love cannot be bought and if it be true love it will never be sold neither directly nor indirectly Seventhly If your love be as it ought to be it will be singular it will make you singular in your love Love your enemies saith Christ It hath been said you shall hate your enemies and love your neighbours but I say unto you love them both love your enemies do good to them that hate you and despightfully use you for if you love them that love you what reward have you do not even the Publicans so Mat. 5.43 44 45. Love them that hate you this is singular love and love where it is true will make a man thus singular in his ways and carriage Eighthly True love is a praying love Saies one I never loved any man till I had prayed for him in particular true love I say is a praying love And true love is a love at all times at one time as well as another And a man that loves truly declares that he is loosned from the world and that he is one that is wrought upon by the Holy Ghost In the Primitive times it was said that they were all of one heart and all things were common among them and when we are thus of one heart and of one mind it doth declare that we have been wrought upon by the Holy Ghost and therefore certainly there is a great mistake in mens love all men say they love the saints they love them in words though I am afraid many love them but little in their hearts But you will say how far is our love to be exercised upon whom and how farr I say no more but this so far as the word Brethren doth extend so far this union and love ought to go Behold how good and how pleasant it is for Brethren to dwell together in unity So far I say as this word brethren extends and that is so far as God is their Father it matters not for opinion or what judgement they are of if God be their Father they are your brethren and are to be beloved by you and so far is your love to reach and extend But you will say wherein doth this love consist Why in these three things In the matter of our judgements In the matter of our Affections In the matter of our Practice First In the matter of our Judgements Rom. 12.16 Be of the same mind one towards another mind not high things but condiscend to men of low estate Be not wise in your own conceit recompence no man evil for evil if it be possible as much as in you lieth live peaceably with all men Secondly In the matter of our Affections in the 10. verse of this Chapter Be kindly affectioned one towards another with brotherly love in honour preferring one another Thirdly In the matter of our Practice read the 3. verse of this Chapter For I say through the grace given unto me to every man that is among you not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think but to think soberly according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith Thus you see how we should act as to our Judgements Affections and Practices one toward another But you will say if this be so then how much is our love wanting one toward another but what shall we do that our love to one another may be more knit together what shall we do that we may advance and rise to this holy agreement both in our own hearts and others For answer hereunto take these directions First Be serious in this work and lay aside the former hinderances of your love and your former divisions and let not any of you say this is the fault and that is the fault and such a one is the cause of it and such a one is the occasion of it No but lay the sault on your selves lay it upon your selves and not upon others and say It is I the Lord knows it is I it is I that have raised this storm and say as David I have sinned I have sinned Let not your former divisions be forgotten but take warning by them lay not the fault I say upon others but upon your selves and acknowledge it and say It is I I Lord that have sinned And Secondly If you do desire to be serious in this work then do you desire Peace and if it be possible live at peace with all men the same word that is used in the original for Persecutors is also used for peace to shew that we should follow after it with might and main as Persecutors follow those they persecute and that if possible we should live at peace with all Thirdly Be sure you strengthen your love Love must be strengthned else this union cannot continue it is the property of love to interpret love in the best sence to interpret things well Fourthly It is the property of love to speak highly of the person or thing beloved where there is an uniting and a sweet agreement there love will speak high things of each other Fifthly The property of love is to cover the infirmities of those they love and indeed how can there be any agreement if infirmities be not covered It is the property of love to give no offence nor to take any and it is a great sign that there is no agreement nor no love when people are so apt to give offence and to take offence for true love is apt to do neither but to take all in good part Sixthly True love knows how to give and how to take admonitions And thus you have heard what love will do therefore I beseech you to strengthen your love to one another yea I beseech you in the Lord to increase it more

is a Gospel of peace Let your conversation be as becometh the Gospel that you be of one spirit and of one mind So I say this holy agreement is every way suitable and therefore the more pleasant and delightful and so it ought to be unto us Secondly As it is pleasant and delightful so it is a profitable good Behold how good a thing it is it is very profitable For is it not profitable for the dew to fall upon Hermon and upon the hills of Zion to make them fruitfull Why such is the dew of holy agreement when it falls upon the hearts of men And this doth make men increase and multiply in the Church and to be fruitful in good works the Psalmist saith God commandeth his blessing and when God blesseth we shall certainly increase and multiply and this I say did increase the Church and hereby are the Saints both increased and delighted by the blessing of God on them they do increase in things that are good and profitable and this was the thing which Christ prayed for yea prayed for again and again yea as I said it is the great thing which Christ hath commanded A new command c. Is it not therefore good and profitable to love one another Again This is the mercy and the grace that is promised specially in the latter times glorious things are spoken of and promised to the last daies and this is one of those things which are promised and if so it is then certainly good and profitable Again This is the Legacy which Christ left with his disciples and people saith he Peace I leave with you my peace I give unto you not as the world giveth give I unto you John 14.27 and therefore surely this agreement among brethren is very good and profitable Again Certainly it is good and profitable to walk worthy of the high calling to which Christ hath called us as the Apostle speaks Eph. 4.1 2 3. I beseech you to walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called with all lowliness and meekness with long suffering forbearing one another in love endeavouring to keep the unity of the spirit in the bond of peace c. Again Is it not good and profitable that our prayers should be heard that God should hear and grant our requests and prayers Why look into the Scriptures and you will find that our love is a help to our prayers it is a help unto us whereby to have our prayers heard and answered Again Is it not good and profitable for a man to know that he is a child of God and that he hath an interest in Christ Why look into 1 John 3.14 We know that we have passed from death unto life because we love the brethren There is a day of death of natural death whereby man shall pass from life to death and there is likewise a time of spiritual life when a man passeth from death to life Now how shall I know whether I am passed from death to life Why if I love the brethren Yea saith Christ Hereby shall all know that you are my disciples if you love one another not only your selves shall know it but others shall know it also and is it not then very good and profitable For hereby you shall know that your prayers are heard and by this also you shall know that you are passed from death to life and hereby you shall not only know your selves to be Christs disciples but others shall know it also and if it be so then certainly it must be good and profitable Again This will give a relish and a savour to all your injoyments it is the salt of all your comforts Have salt in your selves and have peace one with another Although our condition be never so prosperous yet if we cannot agree among our selves if love and peace be wanting that sowrs all the rest and though the ordinances be never so sweet and our priviledges never so many yet if we be not united together in love all is made sowre this is that which sowrs all our enjoyments the want of love and agreement for that gives a relish to all our enjoyments when we have it Again This is that which will make all things easie unto you though they be never so hard in themselves whereas the contrary will make all things hard though never so easie If I am to do a work or a service for one why though the work be never so hard of it self yet love will make it easie many complain and say they cannot profit by the Ordinances why what is the reason It is for want of love to them there are jarrs and contentions between friend and friend between this man and the other man why it is for want of love Love would make all things easie for you though never so hard Now put all these things together and then you may see what a pleasant and profitable thing it is for brethren to dwell together in unity to love to unite to live in unity one with another Well then if this be so why should we not all abound in it why do not we love and agree one with another if it be so good and profitable as we have heard then let us all agree together But it may be some will say we do live together in love and unity and we are united one to another But First Yet give me leave to mind you of what the Apostle saith 1 Thess 4.9 But as touching brotherly love you need not that I write unto you for you your selves are taught of God to love one another and indeed ye do it towards all the brethren which are in all Macedonia but we beseech you brethren that you increase more and more Though you do it yet we beseech you to increase it more and more and so I say to you yea and Christ hath commanded it also and you must do it in obedience to his command Secondly If our love be right as it should be then we shall love others also even our neighbours and friends and brethren we shall love them as our selves The second Commandment saith our Saviour is like unto it that you love your neighbour as your self Pray for your selves do all the good you can for your selves avoid all iniquity that may come upon your selves and to prove your love to be right do all this for your neighbours also and love them as your selves Thirdly If our love be as it should be we shall then love others because they are godly let them be of this opinion or of the other opinion yet that matters not though they be not of my opinion yet if my love be right I love them because they are godly and I love him most that is most godly and as his increaseth godliness so must my love increase toward him Fourthly If your love be true and such as it ought to be then you will love one another and love your brother as Christ loved

willingly give up your right and render up your own right to preserve peace and Unity one with another O friends love one another that you may declare your selves to be heavenly children to be children of your heavenly Father consider Phil. 1.27 Only let your Conversation be as becometh the Gospel of Christ that whether I come or be absent I may hear of your affairs that you stand fast in one Spirit with one mind striving together for the faith of the Gospel O friends let me beseech you to love one another and to take all advantages that may increase your love how can you shew your face before the free love and grace of God if you do not love one another with what face can you go to God for free grace and love when you your selves have no love for your brethren If a poor man should do a rich man a great deal of prejudice and if this rich man should nevertheless invite this poor man to a feast and welcome him and do him abundance of good would you not say that this is wonderful love and kindness because the poor man is no way able to gratify him or to make any requital for what he receives but only by thankfulness it may be he may be thankful to him why thus it is with us now this is our own case for we have done great injury to God and yet God hath loved us and hath given us blessings and riches and what doth he expect for it all surely no reward from us for he knows we are poor and not able to gratify him no he expects nothing but only that we should love one another saies God you can do nothing for me all that I desire is that you would love one another in Truth How then I say will you be able to shew your faces before the God of heaven if you love not one Another O look after this love which is so much commended in this little Psalm O how sweet and perfuming it is it is as sweet as honey is is like unto the Oyl that ran down Aarons beard like the dew upon Hermon and as the dew that fell down upon the mountains of Zion yea this is that which is sweet and profitable that which will perfume you now if you do desire that Gods perfumes may come upon you and that the dew of Gods blessings may fall upon you labour more and more to love one another and let not love be wanting I cannot tell how it may be with you yet let me desire you as you would honour your selves now and as you desire happiness in this life and also to be blessed hereafter to all Eternity observe this new Commandment to love one another and as you do desire to declare that you have received free grace and that you have that seal with which God seals the soul for his own to live with him for ever be exhorted to be of one mind and love one another Rejoyce in the Lord and be of one mind be united one to another and let your hearts abound in love more and more one toward another SERMON VI. MICAH 6.9 The Lords voice cryeth unto the City and the man of Wisdom shall see thy name hear ye the rod and who hath appointed it MEthinks I see a great rod ready to be layd upon the back of this Nation and I would therefore at this time endeavour to inform you what the voice of this Rod is and have to that end chosen this Scripture to speak unto In this Chapter then you have Gods controversy with his own people set down at the end of the 2. verse For the Lord hath a controversy with his people and he will plead with Israel And then he chargeth them with First Unthankfulness for many years in the 3.4 5. verses O my people what have I done unto thee and wherewith have have I done unto thee and wherewith have I wearied thee testifie against me for I brought thee up out of the land of Egypt c. Secondly He Chargeth them with formality and shews them the evill of it in the 6. and 7. verses Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams c. And then Thirthly He pleades against them in the 8. verse He hath shewed thee O man what is good and what doth the Lord require of thee but to do justice and to love mercy and to walk humbly with thy God And then Fourthly He seals up the Sentence in this verse of my Text. The Lords voice cryeth unto the City and the man of Wisdom shall see thy name hear ye the rod and who hath appointed it Wherein you have three things especially remarkable First The people the Lords voice cryeth unto and that is unto the City the Lords voice cryeth unto the City Secondly You have en exhortation to hear the voice of the Rod. Hear ye the rod and who hath appointed it Thirdly You have an Argument to press you so to do It is your wisdom the man of wisdom shall see thy name The Lords voice cryeth unto the City that is unto Samaria and Jerusalem the Chief Cities And the man of wisdom shall see thy name The dispensations of God in the way of his mercy or Justice are his name As a man is known by his name so God is known by his dispensations which though they be dark to the world yet the man of wisdom shall see them and discern them Therefore hear ye the Rod and who hath appointed it the Rod that is the Rod of Correction Now there is First The Rod of power and dignity He shall send his rod out of Zion Secondly There is a rod of Discrimination Ezek. 20.37 I will cause you to pass under the Rod and I will bring you under the bond of the Covenant Thirdly There is the rod of direction Thy rod and thy staff they shall comfort me Fourthly There is a rod of Government both Ecclesiastical and civil As for Ecclesiastical saith Paul shall I come unto you with a rod and as for civil he that spareth the rod hateth the Child Fifthly There is a rod of Destruction thou shalt break them with a Rod of Iron and dash them to peices like a potters vessel Psalm 2.9 Now it is a rod of Correction that we are to understand here from whence I take up this Observation That when God visits the transgressions of his people with a rod it is their best wisdom to hear the rod and who hath appointed it It is their true Interest and best wisdom so to do For the opening and cleering hereof I shall speak to these 4. or 5. Propositions First That God doth not steal upon a people with his Judgements but he first warns them before he smites them Secondly When God smites his own people he deals with them in the way of rod. Thirdly That Gods Rod is a teaching Rod. Fourthly That the message of the Rod is commonly sent to the