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A77355	The works of William Bridge, sometime fellow of Emanuel Colledge in Cambridge; now preacher of the Word of God at Yarmouth. The first volume. Viz. I. The great Gospel-mysterie of the saints comfort and holinesse, opened and applyed from Christs priestly office. II. Satans power to tempt; and Christs love to, and care of his people under temptation. III. Thankfulnesse required in every condition.	Bridge, William, 1600?-1670.; Yates, John, d. ca. 1660.; Greenhill, William, 1591-1671.; Adderley, William.	1649 (1649)	Wing B4445; Thomason E471_1; ESTC R6919	182,218	262

nothing that does so satisfie God the Father as Obedience and the more full the Obedience is the more God the Father is satisfied thereby Now it is said of our Lord and saviour Christ That in this great sacrifice upon the Crosse he was Obedient He was Obedient even to the death of the Cross That he that did make the Law should come down from Heaven and be subject to the Law what Obedience was here Obedient to the Death Yea unto the Deaths in the plural Number And he made his grave with the sinners and his Deaths was with the rich He made his grave with the wicked and with the rich had his Deaths Isaiah 5● ver 9. It is in the Plural Number in the Hebrew though in your English translation it is in the Singular As if the holy Ghost had called death the Second death that our Lord Christ had in some measure suffered For if you consider things truly and rightly I beleeve you will find that our Lord and Saviour Christ when he died and was in his agony he did not only indure the first but the torments of the second death He overcame no more than he submitted to he overcame death by submitting to death Now he overcame the second death also and therefore in some measure submitted to the torments of it so far as he was capable Look what the first Adam should have indured for his sin in the fall that the second Adam now did indure in some measure for to take it off The day that thou eatest thou shalt die the death It was not barely the corporal and outward death but it was the second death If our Lord and Saviour Christ did not indure the torments of the second death the wrath of God upon his soul why did he sweat drops of blood and tremble and shake so when he came to die There is many Saints and Martyrs when they come to die they go skipping and leaping and rejoycing and our Lord and Saviour when he came to die he sweats drops of blood surely there was more than an outward death Oh! the wrath of God and the torments of the second death was upon his soul Thus obedient he was and this obedience of his it was volontary for he needed not to have died but he saw that God the father was dishonoured by mans sin and that poor man would be lost and rather than that should be he does volontarily offer himself unto this Obedience Loe I come saies he in the volum of the book it is written of me I delight to do thy will and thy Law is within my heart Psal 40.7 8. Mark what an expression there is in that Psalm 't is spoken concering Christ as is plainly interpreted by the Apostle in the 10. of the Hebrews at the 6. verse Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire mine eares hast thou opened or bored The Apostle when he translates these words he translates them thus My body hast thou prepared But reade them as they are here in the Psalm Sacrifice and offring thou didst not desire mine eare hath thou bored That as when a servant was willing to stay with his Master and to do him yet more service the servants eare was to be bored So saies the Lord Christ I am as willing to do this work to be thus obedient as a servant whose eare is bored is willing to stay with his master And mine eare hast thou bored saies he ah here 's obedience here 's obedience this now did infinitly satisfie God the Father In so much that ye may see what is said in that same 5. of the Ephesians and the 2. verse Who hath loved us and given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet smelling savour The whol world it was ful of a stench before and the Lord was displeased with man before but now when Christ comes and offers up this sacrifice he did thereby give full satisfction unto God the father for it was a sweet swelling-savour unto God the Father So that thus the Father he was fully satisfied To this I shall ad one word When the Lord Jesus Christ offered up himself a sacrifice unto God the Father and had our sins laid upon him he did given more perfect satisfaction unto Divine justice for our sins than if you and I and all of us had been damned in Hell unto all eternity For a Creditor is more satisfied if his debt be paid him all down at once than if it be paid by the week A poor man that cannot pay all down will pay a groat a week or sixpence a week but 't is more satisfaction to the Creditor to have all paid at once Should we have been all damned we should have been but paying the debt a little and a little and a little but when Christ paid it he paid it all down to God the Father Had we gone to Hell and been damned for ever we had alwaies been satisfying of God I but God had never been satisfied but now when Christ makes satisfaction God was satisfied The Creditor if he be a merciful and a good man is more truly satisfied where the Debter is spared he does not desire that the Debter should be cast into prison and there lie and rot but he is better satisfied with the sparing of the Debter let me have but my Money and so the Debter be spared I am willing nay I desire it saies the good Creditor Now if all we had bin cast into everlasting burnings indeed the debt should have been a paying but there the Debter had been lost But not when Christ comes and makes satisfaction unto Divine justice Ah! poor man is redeemed here is the Debter spared And therefore the Lord he is infinitly more satisfied by the satisfaction that Christ made upon the Cross for our sins than if all we had gone to Hell and been damned to all eternity Oh! what a glorious and blessed satisfaction did this our High-Priest make unto God the Father But you will say then Quest If the Lord Christ made this full satisfaction unto God the Father how is it that Beleevers many of them have their sins and debts standing upon the score still in their Consciences so perplexed in regard of sin as if there were no satisfaction at all made Luther cals this aspect of sin A sacralegious aspect Answ and beholding of sin As now saies he If a man take out of an holy place some goods and bring them into his owne house This is sacraledge So for me to go and take my sins From Christ and lay them in mine own bosome this is sacraledge saies Luther But the reason of it is this Because that men do not study this Truth but was ignorant of it As suppose that a man do owe three or four hundred pound to a shop-keeper for wares and commodities that he hath taken up there a friend comes and he payes the debt crosses the book but the

excels all the High-Priests that ever were As for other High-Priests they did not take an Oath when they came into their office but he swears Other High-Priests had sins themselves to offer for but he Holy and Seperate from sinners Other High-Priests dyed and did not continue so for ever but he liveth for ever to make intercession Other High-Priests offered not Themselves but he offered up Himself He was a King and a Priest they were not They indeed entered into the Holy of Holiest but it was Earthy he is gone into the Holy of Holiest and that is Heavenly They were but Types of him Shadows if a shadow fall upon a dirty ground it cannot make it dry but the Sun can and yet notwithstanding these other High-Priests the Apostle saith of them Being compast about with infirmities they could have compassion on those that are ignorant and out of the way They men of Infirmities sinners They in the time of the Law How much more is Jesus Christ able to succour who is so transcendent an High-Priest and excelling all others that ever went before him I 'le say nothing of the great Power that he hath with the Father or in his own hands The Keyes of hell and death He is able by Conquest for to succour you that are tempted he is able by Conquest for to raise the Siege that is laid against our souls he hath beaten through the Enemy As now if a Town be beleaguer'd straightly besieged by an Enemy and the Enemy abroad in the Field having an army in the Field if any will come to raise the Siege they must fight through the Army they must beat through the Army before they can raise the Siege Never a tempted sould but is thus besieged with temptation closely begirt and the Devils were abroad in the field were the Masters of the field till Christ came and no man nor Angel was able to beat through but Jesus Christ beat up the Quarters all along beat through the Enemy cast out Devils all along overcame Paul by being tempted overcame temptation So by his dying he overcame death and by taking our infirmities upon him he overcame our infirmities and by being subject to the Law he overcame the Law and the curse of the Law and so by being tempted he overcame temptation and having beaten the Enemy out of the field he is now able to raise the Siege he is absolutely able to raise the Siege which none else is able to do He is able to save to the uttermost We shall not need to stand long on this But you will say We will grant Christ is able to succour tempted souls but is he willing Yes He is infinitly willing to succour poor tempted souls Our great succour lies in Reconciliation with God the Father as by comparing these two verses together doth appear God the father hath set him forth to be a propitiation it was the will of God the Father that Jesus Christ should come and make propitiation it was his will Now look into the 40. Psalm and see what Christ saith concerning the will of the Father verse the 7. Loe I come in the volum of the book it is written of me I delight to do thy will O my God yea thy Law is within my heart Some books reade it Thy Law is within my bowels thy Law is within my heart 't is in my desires Yea not only saith he in my desires but in the Gospel we reade it With desiring have I desired to eat this Pass-over before he suffered Desiring have I desired And saith he I have a baptisme to be baptizeds with and I am straitened till it be accomplish't I can have no rest till it be done I am straitened till it be accomplished Yea not only so but saith he here in this Psalm I delight to do thy will 't is the will of God he should make propitiation and so succour I delight to do thy will And in the 8. of the Proverbs My delights are with the sons of men some reade it All my delight but 't is in the plural number When God laid the foundations of the earth my delights were with the sons of men A high and a great expression Surely Jesus Christ cannot but be willing to succour tempted ones when his delights are with the sons of men Again A man must needs be willing to do that which he is willing to suffer much for to be at much cost and pains for David was willing to build the Temple because he laid out so much by way of preparation And Araunah was willing to have a sacrifice because he gave up his threshing-flowr it appear'd he was willing And now when Jesus Christ is content to suffer so much that he may make a propitiation for sinners and reconciliation with the Father and so succour it argues that he is very willing Besides A man is willing to have that done which he is much troubled for if it be not done You know when Christ came to Jerusalem he wept saies the text and he wept He came a succouring and they would not be succoured How often would I have gathered thee as an hen gathers her chickens under her wings and thou wouldst not A Hen is a succouring creature Christ came a succouring came to gather them as a Hen. A Hen sits upon the eggs and hatcheth with the warmth of her body So doth Christ do with the warmth of his love A Hen sits till the feathers be off her own body makes her own body naked for to hatch up And so did Christ When the chicken is hatch't she succours it and covers it under her wings and when the chicken can run abroad let the hen find but a grain of corn she clucks and cals the chicken to her to have part of it And so did Christ And when danger comes the Kite comes she cals the chicken under her wings again to succour it So does Christ When he saies thus he came to gather them as a Hen gathers her chickens under her wings he came to succour them but they would not be succour'd see how he takes it the text saies He wept he wept he was much troubled Wise men don't use to weep before company children will but those that are very wise if they will weep they weep in private Jesus Christ that was the wisdom of the Father fals a weeping and all because they would not be succour'd Surely then Jesus Christ is very willing to succour poor sinners And beloved this was his love and this was his compassion in the day of his infirmity how great is it now in the day of his glory Again It argues that he is very willing to succour poor tempted souls because he was so willing to cure diseased bodies when he was upon the earth he was willing to cure them So willing as though it did cost a miracle yet he would do it So willing that though they did not know him as he

up an Affliction between them that so these two wicked lovers may be kept asunder Thus Under temptation After temptation he succours By filling the heart with joy unspeakable and full of glory By sending the Angels to Minister As when the Devil left Christ had tempted him and left him then came the Angels and Ministred to him Every way Before temptation and In temptation and After temptation the Lord Jesus Christ is asuccouring Christ to tempted souls he is a succouring Christ Beloved he was aman of sorrows that he might be a God of succours his heart it is full of succours I come to the Application Whist I stand upon this Truth Applyca 1. me thinks I hear a solemn and gracious Invitation to all poor tempted souls to come unto Jesus Christ to come for succor There 's none of you all but labour under some temptation or other Ye have read that the Lord Christ is a succouring Christ shall I need to invite you to come unto him Ye have read how able he is and willing he is to succour His heart is bent to succour you his armes are open his bosom is open his heart is open to poor tempted souls that they may receive succour from him Oh! therefore you that are tempted Come unto Jesus Christ that you may be succoured by him Come unto Christ Come unto Christ alone You will say Quest But does he succour all that are tempted why then are any damned Some men will not come unto him Answ Ye will not come unto me that ye may have life Some come unto him but make an halfe Christ of him They won't come under great temptations then they are afraid and then they despair They won't come under small temptations then they despise But for middleing temptations those they will come to Christ for succour in and thus they make a halfe Christ of him Some come to him as to a Moses make a conditional Christ of him they must have their own Preparations and Humiliations before they come unto him or else they will not come unto him But beloved ye know what our Apostle saies in the 7. of the Hebrews He is able to save unto the uttermost those that come to God by him Those that come to God by Him if you do come unto Him he will succour But my temptation is an Old temptation Object an Ancient temptation I have gone under fears and temptations for many yeers together I may say almost my whole life and will Jesus Christ succour such a one as I am Pray what think you of the verse that goes before the text Answ reade it and consider it the 14. and the 15. verses He himself took part of the same that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death that is the Devil And at the 15. verse Deliver them from Satan that were all their life time subject to bondage That he might deliver them from Satan that were all their life time subject to bondage in fear of death and all their life time subject to bondage Art thou therefore a man or woman that hath gone up and down all thy daies in fear of death and fear of hell and been in bondage all thy life time See he came to deliver such souls such tempted souls as these are Christ came to deliver Oh! But my temptation is not a bare temptation Object there 's much affliction that is mixt withal and will he deliver those Yea you know how it was with Jacob Answ Jacob used indirect means to get the blessing Esau's heart rose against him Jacob flies for it when he was in the field in the night then Christ appears to him A ladder whose top was in Heaven the Deity the bottom on Earth the Humanity and Angels ascending and descending All the while he was in his fathers house he never had this Vision of Christ but now when he lay in the open field Christ appears for his succour by his Angels thus Oh! but my temptation is not such Object but my temptation is mixt with much Corruption I have a Proud heart an Vnclean heart a froward heart Will the Lord Jesus Christ lay such a wretched heart as mine is in his bosom Oh! will he succour such a soul as I am For answer to this Answ I pray consider these Three things with me The Lord Jesus Christ is a succouring Christ ye have read And First He will succour tempted sinners most when they are most tempted When the Child is sick and when the Child is most sick then the Mother comes forth and succours it then love sits upon the bed-side then love laies the Child in her bosom And saies he in the 66. chapter of Esay and the 13. verse As one whom his mother comforteth so will I comfort you Again He will not only succour thus but he will succour you that are tempted when you cannot succour your selves when your own thoughts cannot succour you when your own thoughts dare not succour you or when your own thoughts trample-upon your Evidences and when your own thoughts shall make a Mutiny in your hearts and set al on fire In the multitude of my thoughts thy word comforts my soul The Lord knows how to deliver in the time of temptation though you do not know and when you do not know it then he knows and then he will deliver when you know not Reade again the same place the 13. verse of the 66. of Esay As one whom his mother comforteth so will I comfort you Who are those saies he at the 5. verse Hear the word of the Lord ye that tremble his word and you that are cast out by your brethren As one whom his mother Comforteth so will I comfort you you that lie and tremble before the promise and dare not draw neer unto it As a mother comforteth so will I comfort you Thirdly He will not only succour thus but he will succour poor tempted souls with a Notwithstanding Notwithstanding all their failings Notwithstanding all their infirmities Joseph a Type of Christ his brethren sold him away he indured much misery Afterward his brethren came to want and they go down to Egypt to him and when they came there Joseph succours them Notwithstanding all their former unkindnesse I am your brother Joseph I am Joseph your brother 't is true you sold me and thus and thus you dealt by me but you are come for succour and I will succour you with a Notwithstanding So saies the Lord Jesus Christ Poor tempted soul I know how thou hast dealt by me how thou hast sold me how thou hast neglected me how thou hast crucified me but I will succour thee with a Notwithstanding Notwithstanding all thy guilt and all thy fear I will succour thee with a Notwithstanding Three great succours that the Jewes had in the wilderness Succour from the Rock that gave out water Succour against their Thirst Succour from the Mannah that came down