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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29368	The freeness of the grace and love of God to believers discovered in reference to 1. their services and suffering, 2. their consolations, and 3. their salvation and eternal glory : together with the excellency of the fear of God, the goodness and pleasantness of brotherly love, the wisdom of hearing the voice of the rod, repentance the only way to prevent judgements / delivered in several sermons by the late reverend and faithful minister of Christ, Mr. William Bridg ...	Bridge, William, 1600?-1670.	1671 (1671)	Wing B4454; ESTC R19668	79,842	192

Verse of the Parable you will find it brought in with a for For the Kingdom of Heaven is like unto a man c. The former Chapter saith For we have forsaken all to follow thee and what shall we have But Jesus saith he that hath forsaken Father or Mother Wife or Children Houses or Lands for my sake shall receive a hundred fold and inherit eternal life and they that are last shall be first and the first shall be last Thus shall it be in suffering many that are first shall be last and so it shall be in service in employment and in labour For after he had spoken this Parable of the Labourers he concludes the last shall be first and the first last concluding for suffering and for service and he gives the Reason of it from our Election for many are called but few chosen and shews the grounds of it that it is of free grace the first shall be last and the last first So that as to service and as to suffering all is of free grace Now take these words as they are in relation to the former and they will afford us this Doctrine Doct. That there is much of the freeness of the grace of God laid out both in our services and sufferings Free grace in the matter of our services and labour and free grace in the matter of our sufferings The first shall be last and the last first for many shall be called but few chosen For the prosecution of this Doctrine I shall First Labour to shew you That it is a great mercy to be used for God and by God either in a way of service or sufferring for his Name Secondly That there are some that God doth especially single out to serve him or to suffer for him Thirdly That it is the free grace of God that one serves above another Fourthly I shall shew wherein this free grace of God doth appear or shine forth in the matter of our employment and sufferings Fifthly I shall shew why God will order and dispose of our services and sufferings in the way of free grace or free love First I say it is a great mercy to be used for God or by God in the matter of service or sufferings it is a great mercy to be employed in any work for God For First The more serviceable any man or woman is for God the more they honour God and the more they honour God the more will God honour them when I testifie of any excellency in God then I honour God when God testifies of any honour in me then God honours me as now when God calls me to any service then God testifies an excellency in me then God honours me when a Governour puts any honour upon a common Souldier he calls him forth to special service so it is an honour for a man to be serviceable to God This was the honour of Moses Moses the servant of the Lord and when the Holy Ghost puts an honour upon David he sayes The Psalm of David the servant of the Lord Not the Psalm of David the King of Israel no the Psalm of David the servant of the Lord. So in the New Testament this was Pauls honour Paul the servant of the Lord. Now is it not a great honour to honour God and to be owned by God Thus it is with them that serve the Lord. Secondly The more serviceable any man is for God in his Generation the more apt God is to accept of his work though there be failings in the work observe what great failings there was in Aaron yet God accepted of the work Thirdly The more serviceable any man is whilest he lives the more comfortably he will dye when he comes to dye what is a mans comfort upon his death-bed but that according to his measure he hath served God saith Christ Glorifie me Oh Father for I have done the work that thou hast sent me to do And so it is a mans comfort to do the work that God gives him to do yea it will be his comfort at the day of death Fourthly The more serviceable any man is whilst he lives the more he shall speak when he is dead there are them that being dead yet speak why what speaks Abell but Faith good Works good Examples He offered a better Sacrifice than Cain he was truly serviceable to God in his day and now he speaks when he is dead Thus Abell did and thus it is with a serviceable man Look how it is with a wicked man that is serviceable to the Devil and that writes wicked and wanton Books that speak when he is dead so is it with a man that is serviceable unto God This honour is in the service of God above all others and to say no more this is the thing that is desired more in some respects than the enjoyment of Heaven I desire saith the Apostle to be dissolved and to be with Christ which is best of all yet nevertheless for your sakes and the service of the Churches I desire to live So that I say in one respect this is more desirable than Heaven for no such work is to be done in Heaven And is it not a great matter very great to be serviceable unto God to be used and employed by God either in service or suffering Secondly As it is a great mercy to serve for God so is it not a great mercy to suffer for God to be called out to suffer for the Name of Christ For saith the former Chapter We have forsaken Father and Mother Wife and Children Houses and Lands for the sake of Christ but saith Christ he that forsakes so much for me shall receive a hundred fold and eternal life yea he that suffers for me shall reign with me You carry a burthen but Christ carries the heavy end and you have communion with Christ also thereby and thereby also your heart shall be filled with comfort yea even the comfort of the Holy Ghost the Spirit of God dwells in every believer and that man that suffers for God the Spirit of God rests upon him as the Dove rested upon the Earth and so saith Peter the Spirit of God and of glory resteth in you A man is never more glorified than when he suffers for God remember that When our Saviour Christ was upon the Cross he was then glorious before the eyes of Heaven and never more glorious than then for now is the Son of man glorified so may you say when in sufferings Now am I glorified Oh the glory of a Christian Nay sayes the Martyr when going to the Stake Now I begin to be a Christian And thereby he is assured of eternal life and salvation Our present light afflictions saith the Apostle works an eternal and exceeding weight of glory And sayes our Saviour If ye be reviled and reproached for my sake happy are you And if you look into Philip. 1.28 you will find that sufferings are an evidence to us Thus