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A77358	The vvorks of William Bridge, sometime fellow of Emmanuel Colledge in Cambridge, now preacher of the Word of God at Yarmouth. The third volumn. [sic] Viz. 1. The spiritual life, and in-being of Christ in all believers. 2. The woman of Canaan.	Bridge, William, 1600?-1670.; Greenhill, William, 1591-1671.	1649 (1649)	Wing B4447; Thomason E471_2; ESTC R205749; ESTC R24233	115,073	169

obedience Thirdly The more a man does agree with God and the Law the more fit he is to walk with God and observe the Law when a man is justified by faith then he is agreed with God Amos 3.3 Can two walk together unless they be agreed Now when a man is justified by faith he is Reconciled to God reconciled to the Justice of God reconciled to the Anger of God reconciled to the Law of God the Law is his friend Now before a man was justified the Anger of God was his enemy and the Justice of God his enemy and the Law his enemy but now being justified he is reconciled to God reconciled to his Anger that is satisfied by Christ reconciled to the Law that is satisfied by Christ thus he is made a friend to God he is agreed with God and with the Law and so he can walk with God and so he is the more obedient But Fourthly and especially thus As by Works and seeking Justification by Works a man is Estated in the Covenant of Works So by Faith and seeking Justification by Faith alone a man is Estated in the Covenant of Grace When a man is Estated in the Covenant of grace God is engaged to give grace unto him to make him Holy For that I pray do but reade what ye have in that 36. Chapter of Ezekiel at the 25. verse and so downwards Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you and ye shall be clean from all your filthiness and from all your idols will I cleanse you A new heart also will I give you and a new spirit will I put within you and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh and I wil give you an heart of flesh And I will put my Spirit within you and cause you to walk in my Statutes and ye shall keep my judgments and do them First I pray mark here That the Lord does promise Remission of sin although it be never so great I will sprinkle clean water upon you and wash ye from all your filthiness and from all your idols wil I cleanse you But saies a poor doubting soul Though the Lord do thus wash me I am so foule and so unclean that I am afraid I shall never be cleansed Yes saies the Lord I will sprinkle clean water upon you and ye shall be clean But though I be clean and cleansed from my guilt and my sin pardoned yet notwithstanding I have such a naughty filthy heart as I shall foul my self again See what follows A new heart also will I give you and a new spirit will I put within you Oh! but my heart is so hard like a stone that I shall resist this mercy of God Nay saies he And I will take away the stony heart cut of your flesh I will take away the Resistance the stony heart out of your flesh But though it be so as long as my nature is unchanged I shal never do that which is right Saies God I will change your nature for you I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh and I will give you an heart of flesh I wil make such a change in you That whereas before Naturally ye were as hard as a stone now I wil make you as soft as flesh But though the Lord do thus change my Nature yet notwithstanding I shall never be able to order my conversation aright I shall never be obedient Mark what follows I will put my Spirit within you and I will cause you to walk in my Statutes I will make you obedient saies God Oh! what streams of mercy are here But I pray mind the Fountain whence these flow They al flow from this fountain of Free-remission The first is I will sprinkle clean water upon you and cleanse you from all your idols I will forgive you freely I but though this be set first it may be this is not the Cause of the rest how shal it appear that this Free-remission is the Cause of all our holiness Then I pray look into the 8. chap. of the Epistle to the Hebrews where this Covenant of grace is repeated at the 10. verse For this is the Covenant that I will make with the house of Israel saith the Lord I will put my laws into their minds and write them in their hearts and they shall not teach every man his neighbor and every man his brother saying Know the Lord for all shall know me from the least to the greatest Why for I will be merciful to their unrighteousness and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more So that Remission is the Cause of Sanctification I will thus and thus sanctifie saies the Lord For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness and their sins and iniquities will I remember no more this is the Cause of all that Now I say When a man is once estated in this Covenant of grace the Lord ye see is engaged then for to make him holy And as by works and seeking Justification by works a man is estated in the Covenant of works So by faith and seeking Justification by faith alone a man is estated in the Covenant of grace and so the Lord is engaged for to make him holy So that thus you see now This Free-grace of God Justification of a poor sinner by faith alone it is no enemy but a real friend unto all our Holiness and Spiritual life No wonder therefore that the Apostle saies And now I live Applyca By way of Application If all these things be so Then here we see the reason why men are no more Gracious no more Heavenly no more Holy no more Spiritual in their lives because they think not of this they study not this they never had the true sence of this Even because they do not stand cleer from their own Duties and their own Doings as to the great matter of Justification and acceptance with God Is the Free-remission of sin and Justification by faith alone the Fountain and Original of all our Holiness Then why stand ye gazing upon your own Duties upon your own Prayers and Mournings Would ye live I know you would Skin for skin Job 2.4 and all that a man hath will he give for his life But would you live Spiritually would you live an Eternal life that life that never dies that Communicative life that life that is better than you should have had in the State of innocencie Then do you stand clear from all your own Doings and Duties and Workings as to this great matter of your Acceptance with God the Father Do ye think that Jesus Christ will present a Duty or a service unto God the Father that steps into his room and place and Office What is the Place and room of Christ He is our Saviour and the Mediator between God and man that stands between God and man for to cause Acceptance with God the Father if then you Pray Hear Reade Mourn and think

But yet will some say What need of these things If Christ liveth in each Beleever really by his Spirit what need of Commandements or Teachings without for is it not said Ye shall be all taught of God and ye shall no longer teach your neighbor is it not so said in Scripture Answ 1 No not just so for if you look into that 31. of Jeremy from whence the place is fetched and the 8. chapter of the Epistle to the Hebrews ye shall find that the words run thus This is the Covenant that I will make with the house of Israel verse the 10. after those daies saith the Lord I will put my Lawes into their mind and write them in their hearts and I will be to them a God and they shall be to me a people And they shall not teach every man his neighbour and every man his brother Saying Know the Lord For all shall know me from the least to the greatest Mark how the words run It is not barely said thus They shall not teach every man his neighbour and every man his brother but that clause is added to it Saying Know the Lord They shall not teach every man his neighbour and every man his brother Saying Know the Lord. As if he had said I will now make a Covenant of grace and mercy with you I will write my Laws in your hearts and ye shall all know me and though you have been taught heretofore as ignorant people that have not known the Lord yet now because I will write my Laws in your hearts and my Law shall be there ye shall not teach every man his neighbour and every man his brother Saying Know the Lord as if ye were ignorant but my Law shall be within your hearts and you shall be taught as a knowing people Secondly Ye must know that although the Spirit of Christ live in every Christian and so God Yet the Spirit is the free gift of God and therefore it acts and works no further than it pleaseth God to give it Now look into the Scripture and you shall find that the Lord was never pleased to give the Spirit for this end that it should be the only Rule of a mans life but for this end that it should be an help to a man to know the Rule and to keep the Rule Look into the Word and you shall find that the Spirit of the Lord was never given to be the only Rule for a man to live by but it was given to be an help to understand keep and fulfil the Rule And therefore Chrysostom doth well observe It is with Christ in us saith he as with Christ without us In the times of the old Testament the great Promise was of giving Christ in the times of the New Testament the great Promise is the giving of the Spirit Now therefore looke as it was with Christ when he came into the world so with the Spirit when he cometh into the heart Christ in us Now when Christ came into the World he came not to destroy the Law but he came to fulfill the Law So when the Spirit cometh into the heart the Spirit cometh not to destroy the Gospel or the Ordinances of the Gospel but he comes to fulfil the Gospel Christus impletio legis Spiritus impletio Evangelii Christ the fulfilling of the Law the Spirit the fulfilling of the Gospel Quaecunque sunt in Legi c. Whatsoever things are in the Law Christ fulfilleth whatsoever things are in the Doctrine of the Gospel the Spirit fulfilleth And as when Christ came he came not to destroy the Law but to fulfil it Mat. 5.17 for he saith himself I came to fulfil the Law so when the Spirit comes into any soul saith the Spirit also I come not to destroy the Gospel or the Commandements of the Gospel but I come into this poor soule to help it to fulfill the Commandements of the Gospel Now when I do take away the Commandements and make the Commandements no Commandements to me I mean the Commandements without then I destroy the Commandements as to me When I do make the Ordinances of Christ as no Ordinances to me then I do destroy them as to me And when I make the Rule without to be no Rule as to me then I destroy it as to me and when I that am a Beleever say thus I have the Spirit and therefore I have no need of any Commandement from without for the Spirit is Rule enough here I take away the Commandement as to me I take away the Ordinances as to me I take away the Rule as to me and therfore I destroy them Certainly Christ within us is not contrary to Christ without us Christ without us did not destroy the Law Christ within us doth not destroy the Gospel Therefore for any now to throw up Ordinances upon this account because they have the Spirit to lead and guide them this is to walk contrary to all the Scriptures both of the Old and New Testament Oh! that people would think of this one thing The Spirit was never given to be the only Rule of a mans life but it was given to help us to understand and to enable us to keep the Rule Thus you see Ordinances and Christ living in a Christian can stand together And so you have the First thing cleared and proved Christ liveth in all Beleevers Quest 2 Secondly Whereby may it appear That the Lord Jesus Christ doth so live in a Beleever as that he hath a greater hand and stroke in all the actions of his Spiritual life than a Beleever hath himself that Jesus Christ doth live more in a Beleever than himself doth Answ 1 The Scripture is very plain If you look into the 1. chap. of Paul to the Ephesians and the last verse there you find these words speaking of Christ and his Church Which is his body the fulness of him that filleth all in all Our Understandings our Wils our Affections our Duties they are but empty vessels til Christ doth fill them he filleth all he filleth all in all If ye have any Sails spread in any Dutie it is Christ that filleth them Look into the 3. chap. of that Epistle to the Colossians ye shal find at the 11. ver it is said of Christ He is all in all The words are But Christ is all and in all He is all in all men so it may be read Or he is all in all things Either way it may be read and it signifies both He is al in al men and he is all in al things Take the first All for all men and so he is all in all them Take the last All for all things and so he is all in al them in al things Now if the Lord Jesus Christ be al in al things and in al men then certainly he hath a greater hand and stroke in the actions the spiritual actions of Beleevers than themselves have Secondly To make this clear to

and say Lord help me and for the present not to dispute whether he be a Sheep or no Elected or no Predestinated or no but run to Christ and go to Prayer and say Lord help me and lay the dispute by Again As our Temptations encrease so our Faith shal encrease The womans Temptations rose so did her Faith too She came and worshipped him saying Lord help me still she held on and hung upon Jesus Christ According to the encreases of our Temptations so shall the encreases of our Faith be If al this wil not do behold now a Third and a greater Temptation He answered and said It is not meet to take the childrens bread and to cast it to dogs It is not meet to cast childrens bread to DOGS The word in the original is a Whelp A Dog grown or a Mastiff may be is good for something of great use but what is a Whelp good for for the present of what use It is not meet to cast childrens bread unto Whelps To CAST Childrens bread It intimates thus much That God does cast some Outward blessings upon Wicked men that are even Dogs but the bread of Children is so dispensed Gospel-bread is so dispensed as nothing shall be lost Here was a very great Temptation and greater than the other Dog is most unworthy When the Scripture would set out the unworthiness of a man and the abject condition of any he is called a Dog Goliah could understand this Am I a Dog that thou comest out thus against me 1 Sam. 17.43 Am I so base vile and unworthy am I a Dog And so Mephibosheth when he would acknowledge his own Unworthyness to David he cals himself a Dog and a dead Dog So Hasael Am I a Dog Yet saies our Savior here It is not meet to cast childrens bread unto Dogs This woman now her heart might have risen and she might have said thus one would think I am no Dog I am a Woman though a sinful Woman but I am no Dog I have now come spread my condition and misery before ye if ye will not relieve me do not miscall me if ye will not help me yet do not abuse me if ye will not help me yet pity me do not call me Dog I am no Dog The Jews that you call the children of the Kingdom they indeed are Dogs they turn again and rend you but I do not turn again and rend you I am no Dog Her heart might have rise at this phrase Here was a great Temptation now a mighty Trial here in this Third thing Observ Observe It is no new thing for true Beleevers Gods own people to have their unworthiness objected to them It is an ordinary thing amongst men and women I am Unclean I am Unworthy of Communion with the Saints Communion with Gods people with Christ I am a Dog I am most unworthy it is no new thing for true Beleevers to have their own unworthiness objected to them But mark how this womans faith works through this Temptation Saies she True Lord yet the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters table True The word is the same that in the Corinthians ye translate 1 Cor. 15.33 Protest I protest by our rejoycing that I die daily And it should rather be translated so Yea by our rejoycing we die daily rather than in the form of an Oath as it is there it is the same word that is here for True Obser 1 Ye cannot charg a Beleever so deeply or speak so meanly of him but he does think and speak as meanly of himself Lord thou doest call me a Dog and one that is most unworthy True Lord I am most unworthy Some they will dispraise themselves but if you dispraise them too then they will be angry if you fal in with their own dispraises and say 'T is true then they will be angry But a true Beleever you cannot speak or think so meanly of him but he wil say True Lord true Lord Observe here she cals Christ Lord when Christ cals her Dog Lord saies she though thou speakest dishonourably of me yet I will speak honourably of thee though I am a Dog in thy mouth thou art a Lord in my mouth A gracious heart and a true Beleever wil speak and think honourably of Jesus Christ even then at that time when the Lord Jesus Christ shall suffer the greatest dirt and reproach to be thrown upon him True Lord. But the dogs eat the crumbs Thirdly True faith finds out a promise in the very refusal in Christs refusal finds out Encouragment in the bowels of Discouragment True Lord Bread is for Children that is the loaf the piece that is cut off the loaf but the Crumbs does as well belong to the Dog as the Loaf belongs to the Child And Lord thou faiest I am a Dog therefore a Crumb does belong to me True faith it gathers in upon Jesus Christ and gathers in upon him by that very hand that seems to put the soul away from him it makes advantage of a discouragment and gathers in upon Jesus Christ even by that hand that does thrust it away The dogs eat the crumbs Again You may observe here That the least of Christ is highly prized with a true Beleever a gracious heart a true Beleever does highly prize and value the least of Christ A crumb a crumb Oh! if I may have but a crumb a crumb shall be welcome Lord a crumb of mercy is welcome the loaves are for Children but if I can get a crumb I will praise God for it I will be contented The least the worst of Christ in the eye of a Beleever is highly valued and he sets a great price upon it Lastly All this is said by a Woman Women usually are not of that boldness but more easily dash'd out of countenance Faith rises above our Nature and above our natural disposition Faith had gotten into this womans heart and she forgets her own disposition she comes like any Man with boldness upon Jesus Christ follows him and will never let him alone Faith rises above our own Dispositions and above our Natures From all this you may observe here If you be tempted with consideration of your own unworthiness how you should give an answer unto those temptations Do as this woman did if I be a Dog Lord yet I am thy Dog and if I be a Dog Lord yet crumbs belong to me and if I be never so great a sinner mercy and grace is for sinners and I come to mercy Oh! still still hang upon Jesus Christ still hang upon Jesus Christ and never let him go Ab negando promittit he does promise in denying There was honey-combs found in the body of the Lyon Do but hang upon Jesus Christ hang upon him by faith and you will find hony-combs in the midst of all those temptations and discouragements that you do meet withall And though for the present he does seem to