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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

God Page 95 Blessings Blessings of the Gospel what they are Page 77 Gods Blessings are sutable to the times of the Gospel Page 78 See Comfort Blessed How to know whether Christ hath blessed us or no Page 90 Benefits see Temptation Brother see Christ C Childship Man ought not to doubt of his childship in time of temptation Page 251 Christ Christ called our father and why Page 2 Christ called our brother and why ibid All our comfort in God comes through Christ Page 3 Why Christ was made like to us Page 2 Christs satisfaction for man engageth man to Christ Page 20 Christ prayes and intercedes for his people Page 25 Christs willingness to intercede Page 44 Christ was tempted in the same manner the Saints are Page 109 Christ succours in Temptation Page 220 Christ is troubled when we will not be succoured Page 225 How to answer Christ in succouring us Page 237 What causeth Christ indulgence to his people Page 294 See Priestly Sacrifice Sins Transcendent Anointed High-Priest Intercession Temptations Faithfulnesse Duties Prayers Blessings Love willingness Mercy Church The Church is most pure under Persecution Page 309 Comfort What Comforts arise by Christs offering up of our duties Page 64 What Comforts arise by Christs blessing us Page 89 How to find Comfort in temptation Page 257 Call The not-minding of our Call leads us into temptation Page 114 Conscience Why beleevers have their sins charged on their conscience Page 13 Condition No condition so bad but there is some good in it Page 306 Corruption see Temptation Covenant The New Covenant is founded upon the blood of Christ Page 19 Difference between the Covenant of works and the Covenant of grace Page 55 Curse Christ was made a curse for sin Page 82 All the Saints curses are turned into blessings Page 89 D Damned The reason why men are damned Page 230 Dealing Christs Dealing with his Disciples was a pattern of his dealing with all Saints Page 293 Devil see Power Directions see Faith Disciple Marks of a true Disciple Page 290 Disposition We have a Disposition in us sutable to the Temptation Page 114 Duty Christ presents our duties to God Page 52 Christ draws the evil out of our Duties Page 55 The great acceptance our duties have in Christ Page 60 How to know whether Christ offer up our duties Page 67 See Weak Comfort E Egypt Why the Children of Israel suffered in Egypt Page 106 Enjoyment After our greatest enjoyment of God follows our greatest temptations Page 241 Errours Comfort against Errours Page 311 Falings Our Failings are passed by in Christ Page 64 The hurts of failing in faith Page 260 Difference between failing in faith and failing in heart Page 298 Failing in faith how it is known ibid Faith Faith being strengthened strengthens all graces Page 19 Faith is our Anchor by sea our Shield by land Page 116 Satan aimes at the faith of man Page 264 What it is to fail in faith Page 265 How Satan weakens our faith and how to resist him Page 271 Directions how to walk that our faith may not fail Page 280 Fall The fall of one Saint is a siumbling block to others Page 246 Father see Christ G God Gods inclination to hear Christ Page 32 God alwaies hears Christ Page 57 Gods people ought not to question Gods love Page 109 See Christ Promise love Godly Godly men lay all their sins upon their own hearts Page 254 Gospel see Blessing Grace Grace is larger under the Gospel than under the Law Page 68 See Covenant H Heart see Faith High-Priest Christ as High-Priest cannot refuse a poor sinner Page 20 Difference between Christ and other High-Priests Page 223 See Office Holy Ghost The holy Ghost dwels in the hearts of beleevers Page 79 Humility Spiritual joy causeth Humility Page 74 I Indulgence see Christ Incouragement Incouragements to poor sinners to come to Christ Page 48 Intercede Christ intercedes for all sins that against the holy Ghost excepted Page 39 See Christ Intercession Wherein the intercession of Christ consists Page 27 The prevalency of Christs Intercession Page 31 It is no presumption to bear our selves upon Christs intercession Page 41 See transcendancy Invite Tempted souls invited to come to Christ Page 230 Invitation Invitations to come to Christ Page 93 Joy see humility K Keyes The keyes of Heaven and Hell are in the hands of Christ Page 58 Kingly office The Kingly office of Christ is not so full of comfort as his Priestly Page 5 L Liberty We have liberty to go to the mercy-seat of God Page 66 Love Christs Love described Page 98 Gods Love doth not free a man from temptations Page 109 Wherein Christs Love to his people in temptations doth consist Page 286 M Magazine There is a Magazine of Mercy set open and how it came to pass Page 16 Mercy When Christs Mercy is most at work for his Disciples Page 286 Mercy-Seat see Liberty N Nakednesse Christ cloaths our Nakednesse Page 60 O Obedience The Obedience of Christ what it was Page 10 Office The Office of the High-Priest was to blesse the people Page 76 See Priestly P Power What great power the Devil hath Page 242 Praise What matter of praise we have in Temptation Page 312 Prayer Our duties are mixed with Christ prayer Page 56 Presumption see Intercession Priest The work of the High Priest was to make reconciliation Page 6 See Anointed High Christ Priestly The Priestly office of Christ is the magazine of all our comforts Page 4 The Priestly office of Christ is extended to none but such as shall be saved Page 5 The Priestly office of Christ is our only releef against sin Page 6 See Antichrist Prophetical The Prophetical office of Christ is extended to such as shall not be saved Page 5 Promise Christs promises run Indefinitely Page 17 Relying on a Promise makes it our own ibid Prosperity see Thankfulnesse R Resist see Satan Righteousnesse see Christ Robbed The Saints have something they cannot be Robbed of Page 258 S Sacrifice When Christ died he offered up himself a Sacrifice for man Page 8 Saints The Saints are not alone in temptations Page 295 Sanctifie see temptations Satan Satan tempts Gods dearest children Page 245 Satan is very envious Page 246 Satan loves to divide between friends Page 247 Satan hath leave from God to tempt and why he hath Page 248 Satan hath a hand in all great sins Page 255 Satans subtilty described Page 268 See Faith Satisfaction Christ hath made full satisfaction for all our sins Page 9 School The school of temptations is a great school Page 289 Sin All the sins of beleevers past present and to come are laid upon Christ Page 9 See conscience Sour see Sweet Storehouse see Magazine Stumbling see Fall Succour How Christ succours those that are tempted Page 227 We ought to be succouring Christians Page 235 See temptations Suffer Why God lets his people suffer Page 105 Suffering see ability T Tempt Tempt the signification of the word Page 99 The best men are worst tempted Page 103 Comfort for tempted souls Page 233 See Invite Satan Temptation The Benefit of Christs temptations Page 35 Temptations are corroding though they do not prevail Page 101 How to walk under temptation Page 113 We ought to look up to Christ in temptations Page 237 Temptations considered two waies Page 253 Difference between temptations and corruptions of our own heart Page 254 Temptations are the greatest Afflictions of Saints Page 256 How to stand out against temptations Page 258 How to avoid temptations Page 260 We must be thankful when we overcome temptations Page 262 Temptations are easy to be discerned Page 287 The time of our temptations is appointed by Christ Page 288 Temptations are sanctified to Beleevers Page 288 How it may appear that Christ succours most in time of temptations Page 292 Benefits that arise from Christs Succouring in temtations Page 301 See Call Disposition Christ Enjoyment Love School Saints Praise Comfort Termes The termes Christ was admitted into heaven upon Page 34 Thankful Special things we should be thankful for Page 316 Means to help us to be thankful Page 314 Thankfulness Thankfulnesse is required in every condition Page 305 Encouragements to thankfulness Page 320 Thanks Thanks must be given in adversity as well as in prosperity Page 305 Touching Touching how the word is taken in Scripture Page 108 Transcendency The Transcendency of Christs offering Page 14 The Transcendency of Christs intercession Page 35 Trust The great trust God reposed in Christ Page 58 U Victory Christ gives us victory over temptations Page 287 W Walk see temptation Weak Weak Duties are accepted in Christ Page 62 Wicked Wicked men lay all their sins upon the Devil Page 254 Willingness The willingness of Christ to succour tempted souls Page 224 Work What the Work of a High-Priest was Page 6 See grace Y Yeild We must not yeild to little sins Page 13 FINIS

you Go to the Lord and say Lord though I meet with hard things from the hand of my temptations these temptations have lien long upon me yet I do rather chuse Grace than Peace rather to be Cleansed than to be Delivered Oh! my beloved how well might it be with us if we did but improve our temptations what againing day what a learning day might the day of temptation be yea what an harvest-day unto us when Satan desires to winnow us But you will say unto me Quest We are greatly unskil'd in this matter temptations I have and great temptations where ever I go in every business but Oh! how should I so order things and mannage my thoughts and my heart as that I may be able so to walk under these temptations that I may have peace and comfort in the latter end Beloved the next point tels us Answ That Jesus Christ is a succouring Christ to all his tempted people and I intend God willing to shew you how Christ succours and how we should draw succour from him under temptations But for the present give me leave to give you some Rules and Directions against these suffering temptations and so I will winde up all First Take heed that you don't yeeld to any thing that you may be rid of that you don't yeeld to any part of the temptation that you may be delivered from It is more easy to keep the Enemy out of the town than to get him out when he is come into it if he get into the town and get into the market-place it will be a more hard thing to get him out again It is an easie thing to keep a stone on the top of an hill while it lies there but when once it begins to roul down it is a hard thing to stay it and you cannot say how far it shall go How many are there that say when they are tempted I 'le yeeld but once I 'le yeeld but a little and I 'le never yeeld again this is the last time Oh! but your once yeelding and your yeelding but a little ingages your heart to the whole work you should watch and pray against temptation Watch and pray that ye enter not into temptation he does not say Watch and pray that you be not tempted but watch and pray that you enter not into temptation 'T is one thing for temptation to knock at the door and another thing to come in When temptation enters you you enter into temptation take heed of that Again Take heed that you don't carry the sin and the guilt of your Old condition into a New condition See your Call into a New condition before you leave your Old condition Never count your self safe or secure in any condition but assoon as ever you come into any condition observe what are the snares and temptations of that condition Some there are that carry the evil of their former condition into an after condition into a new condition and then as Rachel carrying a way her fathers Idols tempted Laban to follow after Some again they don't much mind their Calling to a condition nor don 't go in the strength of their Call whereas you shall observe that when Peter was called to stand before the Princes and Rulers he did boldly professe Christ because his call did lead him thereunto but when he was not Called into the High-Priests hall then he fals before a tempting wench Others again there are that think their condition wil secure them Oh! saies one if I were but in such and such a condition then I should be safe and free from Satans temptations whereas several conditions have several temptations and the Devil does use sometimes to tempt a man to alter his condition so that by your very avoiding a temptation you fall into it Take heed of this Thirdly If temptation do arise observe the temptation and know that there is some suitable disposition of your own wherein the Devil does lay that temptation and labour to file and pare off that disposition Beloved the Devil observes the situation of our hearts and accordingly does plant his Ordnance he seldom tempts but he laies his temptation in our own disposition something sutable unto the temptation So when David had a mind to number the people then the Devil stands up and provokes him to number the people sutable to his own disposition When our Lord and Saviour Christ was an hungry then he comes and tempts him to turn stones into bread When again he cryed out and said My God my God why hast thou forsaken me then saies the Devils instruments If thou be the Son of God then come down and shew thy self He does usually lay his temptation in our own disposition that is sutable to the temptation And therefore I say first observe the temptation then know you have a disposition subservient thereunto and the Devil laies his temptation in that disposition and presently fals to work and labours to file and pare off more and more that disposition in Jesus Christ Fourthly When a temptation arises don 't alwaies stand to answer it in the kind but sometimes turn your mind and thoughts off it to another object 'T is in our deliverance from a temptation as in our comforts under an affliction a man hath a great affliction upon him possibly the death of some friend that is near and dear unto him and you go to comfort him and in comforting him you fall a speaking of his friend departed whereas the way to comfort him is not to speak of the person departed but fall into conference about some other good thing different and by that time his heart is setled upon some other thing then you may come back again and speak of the friend departed without grieving of him but otherwise even in your comfort you fetch out tears And so I say in regard of temptation the way to avoid temptation is not alwaies to apply a salve directly pertinent to the temptation but turn off your mind and your thoughts to some other good objects and by that time your mind is setled upon other objects you will be easily able to meet with the temptation Fifthly Above all things take the shield of faith Whom resist siedfast in the faith Simon Simon saies our Saviour Satan hath desired to have you that he may winnow you but I have prayed for thee that thy faith faile not that must do it That same woman that came to Christ for her daughter she met with great temptations There was the temptation of her calamity her daughter possest There was a temptation of Christs not answering but delaying his answer There was a temptation of Christs seeming denial I am not sent but to the lost sheep of the house of Israel There was a temptation of her own unworthiness 'T is not lawful to take the childrens bread and to cast it to dogs yet notwithstanding she beleeves Oh! saies our Saviour Woman great is thy faith be

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

Debter when he comes and looks upon the book he is able to reade all the particulars Item for such a thing and Item for such a thing and Item for such a thing but the man being not aquainted with the nature of crossing the book he is able to reade all th particulars and he charges it still upon himselfe because he does not understand the nature of this crossing the book and he is as much troubled how he shall pay the debt as if it were not paid at all So now 't is here The Lord Jesus Christ he hath come and cross't our book with his own blood the sins are to be read in your own consciences but we being not acquainted with the nature of Christs satisfaction and the crossing of the book we charge our selves as if no sin at all were satisfied for us Yet when the Lord Jesus Christ was made an offering for sin upon the Cross then he did give full satisfaction unto God the Father And that 's the Third Fourthly This now he hath done as our great High-Priest and in a more transcendant and eminent way than ever any high-Priest did before For though the High-Priest did come and make an atonement for a poor sinner yet he himself was never made a sacrifice the Priest offered up a sacrifice but himself never was made a sacrifice But our great High-Priest does not only offer up a sacrifice but Himself is made a sacrifice Yea that sacrifice that was then in the times of the old-Testament it could not purge the conscience not only because as the Apostle speaks it was the blood of bulls and goats but because the sacrifice was performed successively as thus A man sinned then he brought a sacrifice sins again and then he brings another sicrifice and once every yeare the High-Priest goes into the holy of holiest to make an atonement But in the mean while a poor soul might think thus What if I die before the year come about what will become of me the High-Priest he goes once a year into the Holy of Holyest and sprinkles the mercy-seat but what will become of me if I die before that time But now our great High-Priest he does not only offer up a sacrifice and Himself the sacrifice but he offers up a sacrifice once for all So saies the Apostle So that now when a Christian hath sinned he is not to think of a sacrifice that is yet to come a year hence but he is to look unto that which is done already a sacrifice once offered and once for all So that he needs not be in suspence now as the Jewes were his Conscience it may be fully purged from sin Again Take the High-Priest in the times of the old-Testament and though he did make an atonement for the sins of the people yet sometimes also he did make the people to sin It is said of Aaron the great High-Priest concerning the golden-Calf that he did make the people naked But the Lord Jesus Christ our great High-Priest he makes an attonement for sin and never does make them sin He is so far from making the people naked that he covers them with his righteousness that their nakedness may not appear Here 's a glorious High-Priest Yea This High-Priest of ours He does not only make an atonement for sin committed and paies the debt but he does also become our Surety unto God the Father He does not only pay the debt that is past but he becomes a Surety for time to come None of all those High-Priests that ever did so not Aaron not any High-Priest that ever gave his bond unto God the Father that any sinner should never sin no more But our Lord Jesus Christ our High-Priest he becomes our Surety and what Surety not an ordinary surety for amongst us the Surety joyns and does become bound with the Debter but still it runs in the name of the Debter and the Debter he gives the bond for to pay the debt But now here our Surety he gives the bond and we that are the Debters we do not give the bond for to pay the debt there is no godly man or beleever that ever gave a bond unto God the Father that he will pay the debt but our Surety comes and the bond goes in the name of the Surety and the Debters name is out Oh! what a glorious and blessed High-Priest is here here is a High-Priest beyond all the High-Priests that ever did go before And that 's the Fourth thing Fifthly How does all this conduce to our Comfort or Holiness First How does all this make to our Comfort Quest first Answ 1 Is it not a comfortable thing in the eares of a poor sinner that there is a Magazine and a Storehouse of Mercy set up that the Lord hath erected an office of Love and of meer compassion for poor sinners Is it not a comfortable thing that God the father is satisfied and so your sins pardoned Mark 2.5 Son saies Christ unto the palsie man be of good comfort thy sins are forgiven thee He does not say Be of good comfort thy disease is healed No whether thy disease be healed or whether it be not healed this is comfort Son thy sins are forgiven thee If the Lord Jesus Christ hath satisfied for my sins may a beleever say then whatsoever affliction I do meet withal it does not come upon me as a punishment properly it does not come upon me as an arrest for to pay my debt When a Reprobate is smitten and afflicted all his miseries they are arrests for to pay his debt Hath the Lord Jesus Christ satisfied Divine Justice and God the father for me then surely these afflictions they do not come for me to make satisfaction Again If the Lord Jesus Christ hath satisfied for my sins may a beleever say then I shall never be Damned I shall never fall from grace I have had many fears that I should fall from grace and so go to Hell and perish at last But if the Lord Jesus Christ hath satisfied Divine Justice for my sin then God the father will never punish my sin again for it was punish't in Jesus Christ therefore I cannot fall from grace therefore I can never be Damned And if the Lord Jesus Christ hath satisfied Divine Justice as our great High Priest Then I may come with boldness unto the Throne of grace A debtor so long as his debt is unpaid he dares not come by the prison door by the Compter door he is afraid of every Sergeant he is afraid of his friends that they should be Sergeants but when his debt is paid then he dares go up and down with boldness And so the poor soul when he knows that his debt is paid and Christ hath satisfied then he may go with boldness unto the Throne of grace But you will say Quest I cannot have the comfort of this because I cannot say that Christ hath satisfied for me How shall I know