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A77357	The vvorks of William Bridge, sometime fellow of Emmanuel Colledge in Cambridge: now preacher of the Word of God at Yarmouth. The second volumn. [sic] Viz. 1. Grace for grace; or, The overflowing of Christs fulness received by all saints. II. The spiritual actings of faith through natural impossibilities. III. Evangelical repentance.	Bridge, William, 1600?-1670.; Yates, John, d. ca. 1660.; Greenhill, William, 1591-1671.; Adderley, William.	1649 (1649)	Wing B4446; Thomason E471_2; ESTC R205749; ESTC R24233	190,835	267

into the Land of Canaan first the sentnece of death is put upon both these their Males are to be cutt off from Egypt and before they come into Canaan they must go into a howling wildernesse thus the sentence of death passes first upon the mercy before they do come to it And was it not thus with David David had a Kingdome promised him that he should be the King of Israel but first of all David must be thrust out of the Kingdome he must into the wildernesse he must be hunted up and down there like a partridge David must be a Traitor first before he can be a King and David must be a Rebell first in the eyes of the King before he can come to the Kigndome and to the Throne he had the mercy afterward but first the sentence of death was put upon it So Job a great and a large and a comfortable Estate that God gave unto him but first he is plundered and spoiled of all a sentence of death passes upon all his comforts And is not this Gods dealing with his People still look I pray into the 11. of the Revelation and ye shall see how the two witnesses are to fare After three days and an half at the 11. v. the Spirit of life from God entred into them and they stood upon their feet and great fear fell upon them which saw them and they heard a great voice from Heaven saying unto them Rev. 11. come up hither But I pray marke they are kild first at the latter end of the 7. verse He shall make warre against them and shall overcome them and kill them and their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great City which spiritually is call'd Sodome and Egypt and they of the People and Kingreds and Tongues and Nations shall see their dead bodies three dayes and an half and shall not suffer their dead bodies to be put in graves There is a Spirit of life enters into them afterwards I but first of all a sentence of death passes upon them this is Gods way and manner of dealing with his People with the children of Abraham with those that are true Beleevers What Reason for it This seemes somewhat strange Not a blessing or a mercy of any great importance or concernment but the sentence of death passes upon it first What Reason for this Why is God pleased to take this way with his owne people the Children of Abraham First of all Reas 1 God doth so give blessings and mercies unto his own people as That he may be most of all seene therein Beloved God doth not onely give us these outward creature-comforts for to supply our Wants but to beare up the honour of his owne greatnesse You have not fish out of the water onely to supply your wants nor fruit from the earth onely to supply your wants nor light from the Sun only to supply your wants but to beare up the honour of Gods greatnesse also When he gives unto his people he does give in such a way as may most of all bear up the honour of his own greatnesse if it were only to supply their wants then possibly the sentence of death should never come upon the second cause but now it is also to beare up his own honour the honour of his own greatnesse and that is done this way Hereby God is known to to be a living God so long as there is life in the meanes God is not so well known to be a living God but when all meanes are dead and yet the mercy comes Oh! sayes a soule now I see that God is a living God Hereby the Power of God is made known he must needs be great in power that can say to things that are not Bee and give a Resurrection unto dead things so long as there is strength and ability in the meanes men do not so much consider the power and the All-suffciency of God but when all meanes are strengthlesse and all meanes are dead and yet the mercy comes Oh! sayes a soule now I see that God is a God Almighty God All-sufficient Hereby he is made known under the name of Jehovah a Being that gives a Being unto all other Beings faithfull in fulfilling his promise so long as there is a being in the second cause and in the meanes God is not known by the name Jehovah but when there is a sentence of death put upon the second cause and yet the mercy comes Oh! now sayes a soul I see that God is Jehovah a Being that gives a Being to all other Beings Therefore God does it 2. Reas And then againe secondly God does go this way with his people with beleevers the children of Abraham That they may learne more to trust unto him to trust unto God alone You know what the Apostle sayes in the first of Timothy the fifth chapter and firth verse She that is a widdow and desolate trusteth in God We seldome trust in God till a desolation come upon the meanes A widdow that is desolate trusteth in God when desolation comes upon the meanes then we learne for to trust in God One that does learne to swimme so long as he can touch the bottome can touch the earth with his foote he does not commit himselfe unto the streame but when he can feele no bottome then he commits himselfe unto the mercy of the waters Now so long as a man can stand upon the second cause he can feele the bottom with his feete he does not commit himselfe to the streame of mercy but when once the second cause is gone and he cannot feele the bottome then he commits himselfe unto the streame of mercy And you shall see the Apostle gives you this account of it in the second of Corinths the first chapter and the ninth verse But we had the sentence of death in our selves that we should not trust in our selves but in God which raiseth the dead This is another reason why God is pleased to go this way Againe Reas 3 Thirdly It is fit that all beleevers should be conformable to Jesus Christ It was thus with Christ we read in that second of the Philippians of our Lord and Saviour That God highly exalted him and gave him a name above every name But see first of all a sentence of death passes upon his name He was made of no reputation verse the seventh he was made of no name first And being of no reputation tooke upon him the forme of a servant and was made in the likenesse of man wherefore God hath highly exalted and given him a name which is above every name He brought salvation life to ligth he spoil'd Satan but first of all he was spoil'd himselfe and a sen tence of death passes upon him before he brought things unto life and he gives you to understand thus much himself here he holds forth himselfe for our example in the twelfth chapter of John sayes he at the

to Marah they could not drink of the waters of Marah for they were bitter therefore the name of it was called Marah And the people murmured against Moses saying what shall we drinke and he cried unto the Lord and the Lord shewed him a tree which when he had cast into the waters the waters were made sweet The speciall waters and blessings of Gods people come to them thus Againe the sentence of death may be put upon your mercy in another mans hand It was a great mercy even to Isaac that by him all the Nations of the world should be blest but the sentence of death was put upon this mercy in Abrahams hand as well as in his owne Thou comest it may be to the preaching of the word and thou art converted by such a sermon thou doest not see how the sentence of death was put upon this mercy before thou hadst it may be the sentence of death was put upon it in the Ministers hand in the Preachers hand may be he had laid aside those Doctrines and those Truths and thought to preach upon another matter may be the sentence of death was put upon thy mercy in his hand so sometimes it is in another mans hand Againe though the sentence of death be put upon a mercy before a beleever comes to it yet it is much according to the life of the mercy that is afterward If the life be great the death is great If the life be small the death is small And sometimes the sentence of death falls mostly upon the apprehension as it was with Hagar she was in the wildernesse and she thought she should die for want of water only said she I won't see my child die and there was a Well by So that now here the sentence of death lay mostly upon her own apprehension And thus you have it also with Joshua of whom you reade in the first of Ioshua the Lord makes him a great promise now therefore arise sayes he at the second verse go over this Iordan thou and all this people every place the sole of your foot shall tread upon that have I given unto you And at the latter and of the fift verse I will be with thee I will never leave thee nor forsake thee Now if you look into the seventh Chapter you find that Joshua had rent his clothes in the sixt verse and fell to the earth upon his face before the arke of the Lord untill even-tide and Ioshua said alas O Lord God wherefore hast thou at all brought this people over Iordan to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites to destroy us would to God we had been content and dwelt on the other side Jordan why what 's the matter you read there went up 3 thousand men of the Israelites and thirty six men of them were smote by the men of Ai. Here was cause now of fear but no cause of such expressions as did fall from Ioshua a sentence of death passes upon the mercy but it lay mostly upon the apprehension of Ioshua Sometimes it fals more upon the apprehension and lesse upon the thing sometimes it fals more upon the thing and lesse upon the apprehension but alwayes more or lesse when God intends any great or speciall mercy to his people to the children of Abraham he does first cause the sentence of death to passe upon it and upon all the meanes that do lead unto it You will say then Quest why does God give the promise I confesse this is true I seldome had any great mercy in all my dayes but first of all the sentence of death came upon it But one thing seemes very strange to me that the Lord should give out a promise first a promise given out and then comes the sentence of death upon the mercy and upon the meanes that do lead unto it What should be the meaning of this why does the Lord deal thus give out a promise first A promise is given out twice At the first Answ 1 before we do use the meanes to incourage us thereunto Afterwards upon some incouragements that we do meet with in the use of means When the Lord does first give out the promise a sentence of death then passes that he may shew you where the mercy lies As the mother does deale by her child showes the child where the meat stands child thou art not yet fit for it thou shalt have it in due time look here it stands Or as a father that showes the child where the money lies child time is not yet but there the money lies ther 's the bag it 's in none shall take it from thee So does God do you thinke that the Mercy lies in the second cause No sayes God here here 's the bag that it lies in Therefore he does first give out the promise that he may tell the soule where the Mercy lies show the soule where it is And then againe Answ 2 God does therefore give out the promise notwithstanding the sentence of death because he intends not to give the Mercy presently You think it may be that assoone as you have a promise set on upon your heart you shall presently injoy the Mercy Nay but God does therefore give you a promise because you shall not have it presently As for Example If I would pay a man my money down presently I would not give him a bond but my very giving him a bond argues I am not to pay him presently So the Lord he gives out a promise and you thinke now you must have it presently No sayes the Lord but because a sentence of death is to come and thou shalt not have it presently therefore I give out the promise And againe thirdly Answ 3 God does therefore give out the promise notwithstanding his sentence of death that your hearts may be borne up against all discouragements when the wombe of the second Cause shall be dead God sees that his child or servant is going to a great storme ther 's such a child of mine sayes God he is going into a great storme and his Faith will be put to a great stresse therefore I will furnish him with Cables and good Anchors I 'le throw him out a promise You thinke because God gives you a promise because God gives you Cables because God gives you Anchors therefore you shall come to land presently the Lord does therefore give you a promise because he does see that a storme is coming you mistake the way of God in his promise this is Gods way he gives out a promise and then causes the sentence of death to passe upon the businesse and upon all the meanes that do lead unto it I come unto the Application Whilst I stand upon this truth Applicat me thinkes I see matter of great and everlasting incouragement to all the Saints and people of God be not discouraged but rather keep silence waite and stay upon God when the darkest times go over your

rise again how shall one know that are there no meanes to know it whether a Mercy shall rise againe when the sentence of death is upon it I shall speake but two things unto that briefly A Christian may have some perswasion of the Resurrection of his Mercy when the sentence of death is put upon it Answ 1 by the frequent visitings of the promise marke when God intends any speciall Mercy to his people he gives out a promise then comes the sentence of death but if he intends to fulfill the promise he does cause the promise frequently to visit the Soule even when the sentence of death is upon the businesse often to knock at the doore of the Soule When there is Good-will between two Young people kept from marrying by their Parents and the Young man often is at the house ye say surely if the Parents were but dead there would be a marriage quickly by the frequent visitings So now when the promise does frequently visit the Soule in the time when the sentence of death is upon the businesse it argues that the Mercy is not quite dead Moses had a promise in a vision the Bush burning and not consuming Israel in Egypt and not destroyed Moses he carries this promise along with him in his bosome indeed we do not reade of it till Moses comes to die and when Moses comes to blesse the People Deu. 33.16 The good will of him that dwelt in the Bush be with you This same promise kept Moses company all along and though the sentence of death was often put upon the businesse yet notwithstanding in that the Mercy came and visited him it argued that this promise was not quite dead So by the frequent Visitings of the same promise Job 14.9 Though the Tree be cutt down yet through the sent of those waters it shall rise again But especially in the second place A Christian may have some comfortable perswasion that the Mercy is not dead but sleepeth By the First-fruits of the promise When the Jews kept the Feast of the First-fruits they knew that the Harvest was not farre off And so when the First-fruits of a Mercy comes we may know that the Mercy or blessing is not farre off Beloved God does use to give the First-fruits of a blessing before the great blessing comes It 's a good speech of one sayes he God does with the same seale seale divers matters one Mercy is made a seale to another God does give one Mercy as a pledge of another and as a seal of another And so our Saviour Christ does in that 9. Chapter of Matthew we reade of a certain Ruler that came to him for his Daughter and he said at the 18. verse My Daughter is ever now dead but come and lay thine hand upon her and shee shall live Here was his unbeliefe that he should say Come and lay thine hand upon her Christ could have healed her without coming to her But Jesus arose and followed him And behold a woman at the 20. verse which was diseased with an issue of blood twelve years came behind him and touched the hem of his garment Jesus turned him about and when he saw her he said Daughter be of good comfort thy Faith hath made thee whole And the woman was made whole from that same houre And when Jesus came into the Rulers house and saw the Minstrels and the People making a noise He said unto them Give place for the maid is not dead but fleepeth And they laught him to scorne He did a miracle in the way as a pledge unto them that he would do this miracle also that he would raise up his daughter and by this miracle that he did in the way he did give them a seale of the miracle following of the Mercy following Thus he does many times Thus he dealt by David the Lord made David a promise of the Kingdome to give him the Kingdome bring him to the Throne David he is thrust out into the Wildernesse well when he is there Saul he persecutes him hunts him Saul comes so neare him as that Saul is on one side the hill and he on the other nearer But even there Saul is delivered into the hand of David This now this Mercy here in the Wildernesse was a pledge to him of the Kingdome afterward So now is it with you hath the Lord given you a promise of some great blessing or some great Mercy and thereupon does the sentence of death come upon it and upon all the meanes that do lead unto it In the interim between the promise and the fulfilling does the Lord deliver you from some affliction that rises up in your way the Interim-mercy the deliverance being of the same nature with the Mercy promised is a pledge unto you that the Mercy shall rise againe though the sentence of death be now upon it And thus you should look upon things But while I am upon this 'T is enough for the Reliance of the Soule upon God A may be of Mercy I say a may be of Mercy is enough for the act of Reliance And this Doctrine alwayes hold forth this truth unto you that there is a may be because when God intends to fulfill his promise by giving any speciall blessing or Mercy to the children of Abraham he does first of all put the sentence of death upon the blessing and upon all the means that do lead unto it Shall we not then waite upon him keep silence in the day of trouble I 'le give you two or three incouragements hereunto and so I will winde up all Beloved The sentence of death you say is upon the Mercy or the blessing that you do much desire If ever the Mercy rise and the grave-cloathes be taken off it shall be the choisest Mercy that ever you had in all your lives Abraham had divers sons but the jewell was Isaac the dead Mercy Hannah had divers children but who like Samuel the found Mercy Mercy once lost and then found is a choise Mercy it is the greatest Mercy First I say If ever you come to find the Mercy you have lost if ever that rise which the sentence of death is put upon it shall be the greatest Mercy Job had a good Estate but when all was plunder'd a sentence of death came upon all when he came to his comforts and his Estate againe then it was done Some have observed concerning Joseph that according to the severall links of his Affliction were the pearles in the crown of his Mercy Ther 's observed some eight or nine I shallnot have time to inlarge my self in them onely thus Joseph he is sold by his Brethren into Egypt Answerable unto that Josephs Brethren come down to Egypt and worship before him Joseph is accused for wronging his Mistrisse sad reproaches cast upon him Answerable to that a Herauld proclaimes before him This is the man whom the King honours Joseph is thrown into prison the irons enter

saies the Lord wilt thou now rest upon mee now I frown now I chide now I have a rod in my hand now I have a sword in my hand to kill thee as it were wilt thou now rest upon mee Well be of good comfort thou art mine for ever Man or woman go in peace good is thy faith This resting thus upon God when all meanes faile it melts Gods anger into love And besides it is that faith that is most successefull the most speeding in prayer You may look into the second of Chronicles the thirteenth Chapter and you shall find there that Abijah going to warre with Jeroboam had not more then halfe so many as Jeroboam had Abijah set the battaile in array with an Army of valiant men of warre even foure hundred thousand chosen men A great Army But Jeroboam had as many againe And Jeroboam also set the battale in array against him with eight hundred thousand chosen men being mighty men of valour I pray now let us consider how went the day Reade the seventeenth verse Abijah and his people slew them with a great slaughter so there fell down of Israel five hundred thousand chosen men Five hundred thousand chosen men slaine How came this about Reade the eighteenth verse Thus the children of Israel were brought under at that time and the children of Judah prevailed because they relyed upon the Lord God of their Fathers Or as some books have it because they stayed upon the Lord God of their father The meanes was too scanty it was short they rested upon God beyond the meanes and see what great successe they had upon this they were but foure hundred thousand against either hundred thousand and they slew five hundred thousand men So successefull is this worke and this way of beleeving It is this faith that now I am speaking of beleeving when all means faile and lye dead before us that does honour God especially which doth justify the soule It is the soule-saving faith of all Pray looke into the seventh of Luke and consider it well It is said at the last verse Jesus said to the woman they Faith hath saved thee go in peace but here 's no mention at all before of her Faith There 's mention of her love in the fourty seventh verse I say unto thee her sins which are many are forgiven for she loved much There 's mention before of her teares at the eight and thirty verse A woman in the City which was a sinner brought an Alabaster box of ointment and stood at his feete behind him weeping and began to wash his feete with teares and did wipe them with the haires of her head and kissed his feete and annointed them with the ointment Here 's mention of her teares here 's mention of her Liberality and Bounty and Love to Jesus Christ and yet our Lord and Saviour Christ does not say thus woman thy teares hath saved thee go in peace Woman thy Repentance and thy Humiliation hath saved thee go in peace he doth not say thy Love to me and thy Bounty to me hath saved thee go in peace woman No but our Lord and Saviour he saw a secret worke of reliance upon himselfe in this woman for she was a great sinner and he sayes unto her woman Thy Faith hath saved thee goe in Peace This is the soule-saving faith thus to beleeve when all meanes faile and seeme to lye dead before you Surely therefore to do thus must needs be exceeding pleasing to God and most acceptable And so I have done with those three Propositions Applic. and now come to the Application If these things be so Oh! what manner of Faith should we have Will ye only beleeve when meanes are strong and have life in them Ye have read of the unbeliefe of the people of Israel when they were in the wildernesse being in the wildernesse they wanted much outward provision ordinary provision and by occasion thereof they murmured full of unbelief in so much as the Lord was angry with them and slew them so that they never came into the Land of promise But I pray what was their unbelief for which God did slay them Was it this that they did not beleeve when they had meanes No but that they did not beleeve when all means failed when all outward meanes failed that is their unbeliefe Beloved we have their promises we have their Example we have more meanes of faith then they and shall not our Faith rise higher then theirs Shall not we beleeve an inch beyond the meanes You have heard the Doctrine T is the duty of all the children of Abraham to beleeve when meanes faile 't is exceeding pleasing to God and 't is most acceptable Oh! What an incouragement is here to beleeve above hope and under hope and when death sits upon the lips of the second cause and speakes nothing but terror Some there are that say they can beleeve for their bodies but they cannot trust God for their Soules when meanes faile Some say they can trust God for their Soules when meanes faile but they cannot trust God for their Bodies some say they can trust God for Themselves but they cannot trust God for their Families what shall become of my wife and children Some say they can trust God for their Families but they cannot trust God for the Church when a strome rises they cry out and say Lord carest thou not that we perish though Jesus Christ be in the ship with them We are very ready and apt to hunt after the meanes when we want them and to rest upon them when we have them And there is a great propensnesse in us to doing rather then unto beleeving before conversion and in the point of conversion Before conversion sayes the young man Mat. 1916. What shall I do that I may inherite eternall life And in the point of Conversion in the second of the Acts What shall we do to be saved And Paul himselfe Act. 9.6 Act. 6.30 Lord what wilt thou have me to do The Jaylor too What shall I do to be saved What shall I do But I pray marke the Apostles answer to the Jaylor when he cryed out and said Oh! What shall I do The Apostle does not say go fast and pray though he had need to do that but the first worke that the Apostle does put him upon is Beleeve and thou shalt be saved This is the worke And therefore Iohn 6.28 29. when some came to Christ and ask't him this question Master what shall we do that we may work the works of God sayes Christ This is the work of God that ye beleeve in him whom he hath sent And of all workings of Faith this same beleeving when all means do faile and seeme to lie dead before us is that which is most pleasing to God Oh! that we could learne Oh! that we could learne this point to beleeve when the sentence of death is past upon a

those Luke-warm I would thou wert hot or cold but seeing thou art Luke-warm I will vomit thee out of my mouth Luke-warm person worse than prophane and yet behold Jesus Christ stands at a luke-warm persons door knocking and tendering mercy to a luke-warme Laodicean person I but stay May be they were weary and heavy laden first before they were invited Reade the 17. verse Because thou saiest I am rich and increased with goods and have need of nothing and knowest not that thou art wrethed and miserable and poor and blind and naked Were these weary and heavy laden think ye And yet at this door behold at this door the Lord Christ stands knocking Oh! grace Oh glorious rich grace Oh! you that have stood at a distance from the promise and dared not draw neer to the promise said it did not belong to you you were not invited to mercy Consider do you consider what great enemies ye are unto your own breakings and humblings that ye do so much desire The approaching of the Kingdom of Heaven and the Doctrine of grace and of free-remission unto a poor sinner is the greatest means and motive in the world to break ones heart Oh! therefore as ever you desire to have your hearts broken and to be humbled look much to the Kingdom of Heaven and the Doctrines thereof and never say it does not belong unto you But Thirdly Vse 3 If these things be so if there be a truth in this Doctrine what infinite cause have we all for to Repent to mend our lives and to turn to God The Kingdom of Heaven hath approach't Beloved hath not the Kingdom of Heaven approach't unto our Nation Take the Kingdom of Heaven for the Kingdom of Glory and in these dying times how hath the Kingdom of Heaven approach't in that sense Take the Kingdom of Heaven for the State of the Church and how many Church-truths hath broken out in these daies that were not known before Take the Kingdom of Heaven for the Gospel and the preaching of the Gospel how hath God gone up and down in these latter times even in these times of trouble preaching free-grace to poor England Witness all these Victories ye have had notwithstanding all your sins Oh! England England now Repent and turn unto the Lord Surely if ever the Kingdom of Heaven is come to you yea hath not the Kingdom of Heaven approach't unto many of your souls in particular are there not some here great sinners that have been invited to mercy are there not some here great sinners that have received mercy hath the Kingdom of Heaven approach't unto you and will not you Repent and will not you turn to God and will not you amend your lives You will say This work is not now to do we have Repented already But pray give me leave Have ye have ye Repented upon Gospel-Motives have ye Repented upon this ground because the Kingdom of Heaven hath approach't Oh! how many legal Professors are there among Professors As there are Two sorts of men in the world Some that live in dark places and prisons And others that walk up and down in the light So some there are among Professors some legal that woak up and down in the dark and see no light Others again that walk up and down in the light of the Gospel many many legal Professors Beloved The more Evangelical your Repentance is the more it will cure your souls and not hurt your body Legal Repentance soakes into the body and frets out the very strength of ones body Pray look a little into the 33. Chapter of Job See what the holy Ghost saies there God speaks once yea twice yet man percieves it not here is man in his natural pure natural state In a dream at the 15. verse in a vision of the night when deep sleep falleth upon men in stumbrings upon the bed that is before a man is aware Then he openeth the ears of men and sealeth their instruction That he may withdraw man from his purpose and hide pride from man What then He is chastened also with pain upon his bed and the multitude of his bones with strong pain So that his life abhorreth bread and his soul dainty meat Verse the 21. His flesh is consumed away that it cannot be seen and his bones that were not seen stick out His soul draweth neer to the grave and his life to the destroyers Here 's Legal work Then comes the Gospel If there be a messenger with him an Interpreter one of a thousand to show unto man his uprightness Then he is gracious unto him and saith Deliver him from going down to the pit I have found a ransome Then at the 25. verse His flesh shall be fresher than a childs he shall return to the daies of his youth His flesh shall be fresher than a childs Thus Evangelical Repentance is a friend both to soul and body Meer Legal Repentance eats out the strength of ones spirit even of ones very body Again The more Evangelical your Repentance is the more you will be humbled and grieved for sins against the Gospel I will send saies Christ the Comforter and he shall convince the world of sin what sin of sin and of unbeliefe Oh! saies the soul that Repents Evangelically who more guilty of unbelief than I Oh! never any one more Ignorant of Christ than I Oh! the unkindness of my soul towards Christ Legal Repentance it pitches upon some breach of the Law and there it rests Again Enangelical Repentance complies with spirituall joy and is a friend unto it You grieve for sin and you rejoyce in God and when you rejoyce in God you grieve for sin I will send the Comforter saies our Saviour He does not say I will send the Spirit No but I will send the Comforter and he shall convince the world of sin and of unbelief The Comforter because it shall be a work of Comfort unto the soul that is convinced of sin Gospel-wise and the more a man rejoyces in Christ the more he grieves for sin and the more he grieves for sin the more he rejoyceth in Christ again Again When your Repentance is Evangelical The more you apprehend or hope that your sin is pardoned the more you wil grieve for it Ye reade in the Psalms of one special Penitential Psalme of David the 51. Psalme But when was that made A Psalme of David when Nathan the Prophet came to him that is after the Prophet Nathan had been with him And what did Nathan the Prophet say to him Saies Nathan Thy sin is forgiven thee Upon that message David fals into a Penitential Psalme a Psalme of Humiliation and of Repentance The more a man hath assurance that his sin is pardoned the more he doth grieve for it And the more Evangelical your Repentance is the more your heart will be inlarged to and for Christ The sight of Gods free-love in Christ will make your heart free in love unto Christ and