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A29374 The sinfulnesse of sinne ; and, The fulnesse of Christ delivered in two sermons / by William Bridge. Bridge, William, 1600?-1670.; Bridge, William, 1600?-1670. Fulnesse of Christ. 1667 (1667) Wing B4466A; ESTC R27224 34,005 84

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THE SINFULNESSE OF SINNE AND THE FULNESSE OF CHRIST Delivered in Two Sermons By Mr. WILLIAM BRIDGE Sometime Fellow of Emanuel Colledge in Cambridge and ' late Preacher of the Word of God at Yarmouth LONDON Printed in the Year 1667. CHRISTIAN READER THou art desired to take notice That these two Sermons are not exposed to publique view by the Author 's own hand but were taken as they fell from his lips in his ordinary Preaching Nevertheless the style method spirituality conciseness and depth of them give in ample testimony to all that have acquaintance with him that they are his genuine off-spring And being suitable and usefull to all persons in all conditions thou mayest through the blessing of God reap much advantage by them THE SINFULNESSE OF SINNE Rom. 7. and part of the 13 Verse But sin that it might appear sin working death in me by that which is good that sin by the Commandment might become exceeding sinful MY purpose is now to speak something concerning the evil and sinfulness of sin and therefore have made choice of these words In this Chapter the Apostle Paul doth give us some account of the way and manner of his Conversion Before I was converted sayes he I was alive without the Law ver 9. but when the Commandment came sin revived and I died for without the Law sin was dead and I was alive without the Law once I thought my self a jolly man I was very brisk and jolly had good thoughts of my condition I was alive without the Law once but when the Commandment came when the word of the Lord came in power unto my soul for I had the Law and the Commandment always with me Concerning the Law I was blameless Phil. 3. 6. the letter of the Law was not absent from me but when it pleased God to set on the Word of the Lord in power upon my soul then whereas I was alive before now sin revived sin that lay dead before and was hid now revived and did appear to be sin for that in the 9 Verse and this in the 13 are the same Vers 9. Sin revived and I died but sin that it might appear sin working death in me in this 13 Verse But how did sin revive and appear By the coming of the Law by the coming of the Commandment thereby it broke out the more and so was discovered as by the coming and shining of the Sun-beams upon the Dung-hill the filth stinks the more not that the Sun-beams are the cause but the occasion thereof And sin revived by the coming of the Commandment and appeared to be sin appeared more to me in its own shape and struck me dead with the apparition thereof whereas before sin was dead and I alive now sin alive and I dead From whence then I take up this Observation Observ That there is a great deal of evil and sinfulness in sin which doth not appear to a man until he doth Convert and turn unto God Look when a man doth Convert and turn unto God then sin appears to be sin indeed and not before For the clearing and prosecution whereof I shall labour to shew First That there is a great deal of evil and sinfulness in sin Secondly That this evil and sinfulness of sin doth not appear to a man until Conversion-work pass upon his soul Thirdly Look when a man doth Convert and turn to the Lord in truth then sin appears in the sinfulness thereof unto him 1. There is a great deal of evil and sinfulness in sin To make it out in the general and then more particularly 1. In the general this may appear by the names of sin for sin hath taken up all the names of evil of all evils The Scripture doth not Nickname sin and yet what evil is there incident unto man but sin is invested with the name thereof in Scripture 1. Is it an evil thing for a man to be unclean and filthy Sin is called filthiness I will wash you from all your filthiness Ezek. 36. 25. 2. Is it an evil thing for a man to be naked Sin is called nakedness That your nakedness may not appear Rev. 3. 18. 3. Is it an evil thing for a man to be blind Sin is called blindness The blind shall lead the blind Mat. 15. 14. 4. Is it an evil thing for a man to be foolish Sin is called folly That you may no more return unto folly Psal 85. 8. 5. Is it an evil thing for a man to be mad The Prodigal returned unto himself Luke 15. 17 and I was mad sayes Paul Acts 26. 11. 6. Is it an evil thing for a man to be dead Sin is called death Dead in trespasses and sins Ephes 2. 1. 7. It is called an Abomination Prov. 8. 7. and because there is no word that can express the evil and sinfulness of sin the Apostle in this place sayes That sin might become exceeding sinful Why Because there is no word of evil that can reach the evil of sin Now look what that is that doth ingross and take up all the names of all evils that must needs be exceeding evil So it is with sin 2. Look what that is that doth separate betwixt us and God who is the chiefest and universal good That must needs be the greatest evil Now sayes the Prophet Your iniquities have separated between you and your God Isa 59. 2. 3. Look what that is that doth unite us to Satan and make us the Children of the Devil That must needs be very evil Says our Saviour You are of your father the devil Why For his works you do Joh. 8. 44. Sin makes us the children of the devil 4. Look what that is that did put Christ to death that was the cause of his death That must needs be exceeding evil So sin did He was made sin for us 2 Cor. 5. 21. He bare our sins upon the Cross 1 Pet. 2. 24. and the Lord made the iniquity of us all to meet on him Isa 53. 6. 5. Look what that is that doth bring a general curse upon the whole Creation That must needs be evil So sin hath done cursed be the ground and the earth for thy sake Gen. 3. 17. 6. Look what that is that doth soil and stain all our glory and the Image of God in us That must needs be great evil Sin hath stayned the beauty of the Image of God that was stampt upon us and by sin saith the Apostle Row 3. 23. we come short of the glory of God For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God 7. Look what that is that doth bring such horror of Conscience that a soul is not able to bear and cannot be allayed but by the blood of Jesus That must needs be a very great evil Sin and the eating of the forbidden fruit hath bred this worm that never dies 8. Look what that evil is that is the fewel of Hell that feeds Hell-fire to all Eternity That