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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

First Proposition The Second afforded this Observation That all the Saints and People of God do partake of the Fulness of Jesus Christ in a way of receiving This fals asunder into Two Parts or Two Branches First That there is a Communication of the Fulness of Jesus Christ unto all Beleevers Secondly That what ever Grace or Holiness the Saints have from Christ they have it in a way of receiving I have done also with the First of these And am now God willing to speak to the Second Whatsoever Grace or Holiness the Saints and People of God have from Christ they have it all in a way of receiving Of His Fulness all we have received The former Branch told us That Christ Communicates This tels us That we Receive There the Emphasis lay upon Christs Communicating And here the Accent is set upon our Receiving The Grace of Jesus Christ is not borne with us We do not go to Jesus Christ in the strength of our Nature to take of His Fulnesse to our selves But Jesus Christ gives out and we receive All in a way of Receiving The Grace and Mercy of our Justification and remission of Sins is by way of Receiving Rom. 5.11 Not only so but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ by whom we have now received the atonement Atonement is to be had it is to be had by Christ and this in a way of Receiving Again The Grace and Mercy of our Adoption is to be had in a way of Receiving Gal. 4.5 He came to redeem them that were under the Law that we might receive the Adoption of Sons Adoption is a Blessing that is most desirable This Christ gives and this we receive Again The Grace of our Sanctification is to be had in a way of Receiving What is the Cause and Original of all our Grace or Holinesse but the Spirit of God And that is received Gal. 3.2 This only would I learn of you Received ye the Spirit by the works of the Law or by the hearing of Faith The Schools say that the word Grace is either taken for The Gifts of the holy-Ghost or for Saving and Sanctifying Grace Take Grace for The gifts of the holy-Ghost as sometimes the Word is used in Scripture and that is in a way of Receiving Acts 10.47 They heard them speak with Tongues at the 46. ver Then answered Peter Can any man forbid water that these should not be Baptized which have received the holy-Ghost That is The Gift of the holy Ghost Take Grace for Holiness and Sanctification and that is also in a way of Receiving to be had in a way of Receiving Rom. 8.15 For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear But ye have received the Spirit of Adoption whereby we cry Abba Father There are Gifts of Prayer And there is the Spirit of Prayer of Adoption crying Abba Father The First may be without Grace but the Second not where ever the Second is there is Grace And this is Received saith the Apostle here In general all is by way of Receiving Col. 2.6 As ye have Received the Lord Christ saies the Apostle see that ye walk in Him And in another place 1 Cor. 4.7 What hast thou that thou hast not Received What hast thou that thou hast not Received All in a way of Receiving He shall come down saies the Psalmist in the 72. Psalm speaking concerning our Lord and Savior Christ and His Grace at the 6. verse He shall come down like rain upon the mowen grass Or as some write it for so the Original will bear it He shall come down like rain upon the Fleece having relation to Gideons Fleece He shall come down like rain upon the mowen grass as showers that water the earth A Psalm for Solomon saies the Title But there are many things in this Psalm that cannot properly be understood of Solomon but in a type properly belonging to Jesus Christ For as Strigelius does well observe at the 7. verse the verse next following this text it is said In his daies shall the righteous flourish and abundance of peace so long as the moon endureth Solomon did not live so long as the moon endures This therefore is to be understood of Christ And at the 5. verse it is said They shall fear thee as long as the Sun and moon endure throughout all generations They did not fear Solomon men did not fear Solomon as long as the Sun and moon endures through all generations This therefore must be understood of Christ Now see therefore what is said of Christ and concerning His Grace saies the Text in the 6. verse He shall come down like rain upon the mowen grass Like rain rain you know is that that does make the earth fruitful Non ager sed annus facit fructum 'T is not the sowing but 't is the Year that causes fruit 't is the rain that causeth fruit And so 't is the Grace of Jesus Christ that does make us fruitful His Grace the cause of our Grace I will be as a dew saies the Lord in the 14. of Hosea unto Israel and then follows fruitfulness Again The rain cometh by special appointment from God Amos. 4.7 Judg. 6.38 39 40. with a kind of dis-crimination He maketh the rain to fall upon one City saith the Prophet and not upon another As wee reade concerning Gideons Fleece the dew fell upon the Fleece when all the earth was dry round about it And then the dew fell upon the ground when the Fleece was dry And this was a Type of the Grace of Christ when the Jewes were bedewed with the Grace of Christ then all the Nations round about they were dry And then when God bedewed the Gentiles the Nations round about with His Grace then the Jews were dry and they are dry to this day Again The rain falleth 't is the Scripture phrase the rain falleth and falleth upon the earth and the earth is a recipient to receive it it is meer recipient at the first and then brings forth it 's fruit the Rain falleth And so doth the Grace of Christ the Grace of Christ falls upon the souls of men and women saith the Text here He shall come down like the rain upon the mowne grass So doth the Grace of Jesus Christ it comes down upon a poor soul All in a way of receiving al in a way of receiving whatever grace or holiness a man hath on this side Heaven it is all in a way of Receiving And this will appear further to you if you consider The insufficiency of Nature The Supernaturallity of Grace The Shortness of all means that are appointed thereunto The work and nature of Faith And the posture and true behaviour of Prayer First of all There is a Natural inability in a man unto what is good truly Spiritually good First A man is unable by Nature to overcome any sin though it be never so small A man by Nature

Action of Christ may be our instruction Nothing in Christ not imitable some things more especially For Example Our Lord and Savior Christ He made it His great business and design To bear witness to the Truth For this Cause came I into the world Joh 18.37 That I might bear witness unto the Truth Again He would stoop to any work though it lay much below Him wasn His Disciples feet lay His Excellencies at the feet of their Infirmities Again When He went upon any work He was much in Prayer first Judas knew His Praying place And when He was at Gods work He would not know His own Natural Relations And therefore saies He to His Mother Moman My time is not yet come He does not say Mother Joh. 2.4 My time is not yet come but Woman in Gods Work He would not know His owne Naturall Relations If He had to deal with man He had a high esteem of the Saints though they were never so low And He had a low esteem of the wicked though they were never so rich He did again so exercise one Grace as He might exercise another He would so rejoyce in God as He might grieve for sin not His own but ours and He did so grieve for sin as he might rejoyce in God He was very Zealous yet he was Wise too He was wise and yet he was Zealous too He was a Lamb and a Lyon a Lamb in his own Cause and a Lyon in Gods Cause Oh! that in these thigns you would labor to be like unto Him It would be infinit indeed it would be beyone me if I should single out all his Graces that were eminent in Him He was a Heaven of Grace full of shining stars Behold Him in His Doings The only way for you to be like to Him in your Doing is to behold Him in His Doing And so for His Sufferings Ye shall observe He would not suffer till He was called unto it Therefore He stood so precisely upon His Time Joh. 7.8 My Time is not yet come And when He was called unto it He would not be put out of His way If they cast water upon Him it made Him flame the more Mat. 16.23 Isa 53.7 Get thee behind me Satan In all His sufferings He had an especial eye to other mens good then He went very quietly and meekly As a Lamb dumb before the shearers so He opened not His mouth And He was more sensible which I pray mark of Gods withdrawing from Him in His sufferings than of all the pains disgrace and misery that He did undergo And therefore when He was upon the Cross saies He My God My God why hast thou forsaken me Mat. 27.6.4 The Sun did forsake Him too the Sun did withdraw his light and yet He does not say Oh! Sun why doest thou thus forsake me The Disciples al forsook Him and yet He does not cry out Thomas Why doest thou now forsake me Peter why doest thou now forsake me He cries not out of them His body was nail'd to the Cross and he does not cry out and say Oh! my hands Oh! my body Oh! the pain that I indure but here he cries out of this Oh! My God My God why hast thou forsaken me He was more sensible of Gods withdrawing from Him tnan of all the other miseries that He did indure Oh! my beloved that you would labor now for to be like unto Jesus Christ in your Doing in your Suffering for to be like to Him The sight of a gracious Christ will make us gracious if any thing will do it Labor now to be like unto Him more and more This is your duty that does flow from hence You that are Saints you that are Christ's you that have received Grace for Grace Christ expects work for work and doing for doing that you should shine as He shin'd and that you should live as He lived that you should so walk and be in the world that those that do live with you may say Here 's a man or woman that is like to Christ that hath received Grace for Grace now we see this Doctrine true I cannot think of any Grace of Christ but I see it shining forth in this man and woman This is your Duty Thirdly by way of Application If this be true Appli 3. That the Saints and People of God do receive of Christs Fulness Even Grace for Grace How infinitly are we bound unto God the Father for our Lord Jesus Christ glorious is the fellowship and communion that the Saints have with Christ as ye heard they have not only fellowship with Him in His sufferings to have suffering for suffering but they have fellowship with Him in His Graces Grace for Grace and this fellowship hath God the Father brought you into Mark therefore that place again which you have in the 1 Cor. 1.9 God is faithful by whom ye were called unto the fellowship of His Son Jesus Christ our Lord. By whom ye were called unto this fellowship Therefore still the Apostle he blesses God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ Blessed be God and the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ Not barely Blessed be God but Blessed be God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ Beloved Ye know there are Two great Gifts that the Scripture makes mention of First God makes the world and Man and having made man He gives all the world to man there 's one Gift and a great Gift Man having fallen and lost his former Happiness Christ comes into the world the second Person becomes man and this man he gives unto the world First He gave the world to man And Secondly He gives Christ this man unto the world and His second Gift is the greater Gift it 's a greater Gift when Jesus Christ was given unto the world than that the whol world was given to man For now take the world and though it hath many glorious pieces of Gods workmanship His Power and Wisedom yet God may give all the world to man and not give him Himself but when He gives Jesus Christ to man He gives Himself with Him Though there be many several pieces beautiful pieces of Gods workmanship in the world yet they carry with them but the Footsteps of God Oh! but Jesus Christ He is the express Image of the Father and when He gives this express Image unto a soul as Christ is the express Image of the Father so the soul becomes the express Image of Jesus Christ Ye know what the Apostle saies concerning our Savior Christ Col. 2.9 mark In whom the fulness of the God-head dwels bodily That is look what Attributes and Excellencies are in God the same are in Jesus Christ as Mediator Whatsoever Attribute is in God as God the sameshines forth in Jesus Christ as Mediator The Fulness of the God-head dwels in Christ bodily and the Fulness of Christ dwels in every Saint Spiritually Jesus Christ He hath Perfection for Perfection

He hath Attribute for Attribute He hath Excellency for Excellency with God the Father And every gracious godly soul he hath Grace for Grace from Jesus Christ Of his Fulness have we received Grace for Grace As the Fulness of God the Father dwels in Him bodily so the Fulness of Christ dwels in every Christian Spiritually And this fellwoship hath God the Father called you unto By whom we have fellowship 1 Cor. 1.9 this hath God the Father called you unto Oh! how infinitly are you bound unto God the Father to honor and bless the Father When ye look upon the Son me thinks you should bless the Father and when ye look upon the Pather you should love the Son As a mother does when she looks upon her Child she loves the father and when she looks upon the fatehr she loves the Child again So a Christian when he looks upon Jesus Christ he should bless the Father and when he looks upon the Father he should bless Jesus Christ and love Jesus Christ Dear Father thou hast not only given us thy Son but given us thy Son in such a way that we should have Grace for Grace Answerable to His Grace is this after the manner of men Oh! therefore why should we not all say Blessed be God and the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ Oh! you you that love Jesus Christ bless the Father and you that bless the Father love Jesus Christ take your selves to be infinitly bound unto god the Father who hath given you such a Christ as this of whom you should have Grace for Grace I have done Only I would leave one Exhortation whith the Saints that have received of Christs fulness thus Grace for Grace It 's thus mark it I pray Is this true That of His Fulness ye have all received Appli 4. Grace for Grace Answerableness of Grace that ye have fellowship with Jesus Christ in all His Graces Then be for ever contented to have fellowship with Jesus Christ in al his Sufferings And truly well may ye be contented if you have fellowship with Christ in His Sufferings if you have Suffering for Suffering ye shall have Grace for Grace and Glory for Glory if ye partake with Him in His Sufferings ye shall partake with Him in His Graces and partake with Him in His Glory I say well may ye be contented to have fellowship with Him in His Sufferings for if you have suffering for suffering you shall have Comfort for Comfort if you have fellowship with Him in His sufferings you shal have fellowship with Him in His Comforts too Mark ye When Jesus Christ Suffered Had He a Deity to support Him So shall you have When Jesus Christ Suffered Had He Angels to minister to Him So shal you have When Jesus Christ suffered Did He see the travaile of His Soul So shall you see it When Jesus Christ was lift up He drew al men after Him So shal you do when you are lift up for the Truth upon the cross you are apt to think now wil the Truth suffer now wil the Cause of God fall to the ground But remember if you have fellowship in His Graces if you have fellowship with Christ in His Sufferings you shal have fellowship with Christ in His Comforts This was one of His Comforts when He was lift up upon the Cross then He drew all men after Him So when you come to be lift up upon the Cross then shall men be drawn after the Truths that you suffer for and never shal men be more drawn after the Truths that you suffer for then when you come to be lift up upon the Cross to suffer for them Oh! who would not be willing to partake with the Lord Jesus Christ in His sufferings to have fellowship with Him in his sufferings to have suffering for suffering 'T is observed that our Savior never met with any great dobasement but at that time in the midst of that debasement there was some breakings forth of Golory He was born in a Stable He was laid in a Manger here was His first debasement Here glory breaks forth the Wise men come and fal down before Him and offer gifts frankincense and mirrhe Again He was Baptized He needed not to have been Baptized He was clean enough in his Nature He put our cloathes upon him stood in our nature Now He hears a Voice from Heaven Matt. 3.17 saying This is My Beloved Son Again You reade of Him riding upon an Ass Not riding in a Coach drawn with Lyons and drawn with Elephants Savior riding upon an Ass in a mean way a debased way now breaks forth some glory now they cry Hosanna Hosanna to him Again upon the Cross there he was most debased then breaks forth some glory The Sun that stands still and vails his face as one astonished at the worlds Savior Now does the vail of the Temple rend in sunder now Glory breaks forth in the midst of his debasement Thus it was with Christ Have you suffering with him for sufferings Have you fellowship with Christ in his sufferings you shall have fellowship with Christ in his Comforts Oh! therefore I beseech you be contented now to have suffering for suffering with Jesus Christ and whensoever any suffering comes especially for the Truth boggle not at it be content and say within your selves Oh! blessed be the Lord that hath called me out to this work I shall have this fellowship with Christ in his sufferings I shall now have suffering for suffering therefore I shall have Comfort for Comfort I shall have Grace for Grace I shall have Glory for Glory Oh! who would not be encouraged I leave this Exhortation with you comfort your selves in these words and never startle at suffering as herefore but make account of this That if you have Grace for Grace ye may meet with Suffering for Suffering but then you shall have Comfort for Comfort and ye shall have Glory for Glory Think on these things and the Lord give us to practise them THE SPIRITUALL-ACTINGS OF FAITH Through NATURALL-IMPOSSIBILITIES Rom. 4. vers 19. And being not weak in faith he considered not his own body now dead when he was about an hundred years old neither yet the deadnesse of Sarahs wombe Rom. 4. vers 19. And being not weak or weakned in Faith c. IN this latter Part of the Chapter ye have the commendation of Abrahams faith Preached at Margarets New-fishstreet Fev 23. 1645. described from the Subject or Matter of that he beleeved in the 18. and 19. verses From the Manner of his beleeving He staggered not at the 20. verse at the promise of God through unbeliefe but was strong in faith c. From the Cause of his faith the sight of Gods Al-sufficiency and faithfulnesse being fully perswaded that what he had promised he was able also to performe From the Effect of his Faith He gave glory to God First of all for the Subject or the Matter

sins But I pray what works the heart over to this acknowledgment When David had Saul at a great advantage and spar'd him Saul breaks forth into this expression O my son David thou art more righteous than I O David thou art a righteous man but I am an unrighteous man So when the soul sees what infinite advantage the Lord hath it at and how the Lord spareth then the soul breaks forth and saies The Lord is righteous I am unrighteous I am unrighteous this works an acknowledgment Sixtly A Repenting person does not only acknowledge his sin as occasion serves but he labours to un-sin his sin and truely else it is no Repentance He does walk contrary unto himself and his former self he does labour to undo what he had done before sinfully he does labour to unsay what he had said before wickedly Before the Jaylor was converted he clap't up the Apostle into close prison and either he whipt him there or else being whipt he did not relieve him and wash his wounds But the Jaylor Repenting mark how he walks contrary to himself Repenting he opens the prison door he washes the Apostles wounds brings him into his own house sets meat before him Those Sorcerers Acts 19. repenting burnt their books which before they prized and studies much How did Manasses walk contrary to himself when he once Repented Well But what is that that will bring the soul to this disposition to walk contrary to ones former self If you look into the 116. Psalm ye shall find there how the Psalmist eats up his former words I said in my hast all men are lyers It was amiss in me I eat my words I am sorry for it what made him do it Saies he at the 3. verse The sorrows of death compassed me about and the pains of hell gate hold upon me I found trouble and sorrow Then called I upon the Name of the Lord O Lord I beseech thee deliver me at the 5. verse Gracious is the Lord and righteous yea our God is mercisul Now having had a tast of Gods grace and God mercy now he eats his former words And so the good man Hezekiab I said saies he I am cut off from the land of the living Isa 38.11 He did eat his words I repent it was suddenly done How was he wrought off to this He had tasted of the love and grace and goodness of God and this made him do it So that now look into the bowels of Repentance and the several workings thereof and ye shall find there is no such way or means or motive to bring a soul unto Repentance as the approaching of the Kingdom of Heaven the word and work of Gods grace and love of God in Jesus Christ Would you know the Reason Briefly thus Repentance is a fruit of faith Ye have a notable expression of godly sorrow to the height in the 12. of Zachary the latter end of the 10 11 and 12. verses speaking of the Call and Conversion of the Jews They shall mourn for him as one mourneth for his only son and shall be in bitterness for him the latter end of the 10. verse as one that is in bitterness for his first-born Bitterness upon bitterness and mourning And in that day at the 11. verse there shall be a great mourning in Jerusalem as the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the valley of Megiddon And the land shall mourn every family apart the family of the house of David apart and their wives apart Here is great mourning and sorrow What caused this saies he at the 10. verse They shall look upon me whom they have pierced and they shall mourn They shall look upon me whom they have piercit This is the eye of faith and all true mourning and sorrow does come from thence All tears of Repentance flow from the eye of faith the more a man by faith is able to see a pierced Christ the more his heart is pierced for sin committed the more by faith a man is able to see a wounded Christ the more will his heart be wounded for sin committed Faith works Repentance but what worketh faith Surely the Gospel the preaching of the Gospel Received ye the Spirit by the works of the Law or by the preaching of faith He does not say by the preaching of the Gospel but by the preaching of faith The Gospel is called faith not only because 't is the Cbject of faith but that by which faith is wrought Again As Repentance is a fruit of faith So also it does flow from love Amor doloris causa Love is the cause of grief The more a man loves another or apprehends that he is loved of him the more he grieves if he hath any way injured him If you at un-awares do strike another and one tell you that he is your enemy ye grieve not ye are not troubled unless it be in regard of some mischief that may come to your self But if one tell you that he is a friend a specialfriend that grieves you So now if by my sins I have striken at God if I look upon God as an enemy I am not grieved much I am not troubled much But when I consider him as my father the best friend I have in the world and consider how by my sins I have stricken at him this makes me grieve Oh! that ever I should wound the name of him whom my soul loves She loved much saies our Saviour concerning the weeping woman she loved much for much was forgiven her He does not say she wept much for much was forgiven her there was no mention before of her love but only of her weeping and yet saies our Saviour she loved much because he would shew what it was that drew up the sluce of these tears it was her love And what causeth love Love causeth love The more a man sees and apprehends the love of Christ towards him the more his heart is drawn out in love towards Christ again And what greater act of love than this That the Kingdom of Heaven approaches that the Kingdom of Heaven should come and make it's approach to such a poor sinner as I am Surely therefore the approaching or drawing neer of the Kingdom of Heaven is the highest and greatest motive in the world unto true Repentance You will say Experience seems for to speak the contrary for arguments drawn from Hell and the wrath of God seem to be more powerful and efficacious in the working of Repentance I have will some say sometimes considered the wrath of God and let out my heart upon arguments drawn from thence and then I have bin much humbled broken been much affected yea the truth is I have been more humbled and more broken and more affected and more troubled for sin than when the Gospel the word of the Kingdom hath been preach'd and opened unto me How therefore is this true Experience seems to speak the contrary I answer Quicquid recipitur c.