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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

Self-Denial such an Example as the Sun never saw before Phil. 2.6 7. Luke 22.42 from first to last At the first He thought it no robbery saies the Apostle to be equal with God and yet he humbled himself and took upon him the form of a servant And at the last Saies he unto his father Yet not my will but thy will be done And if ye look into the 13. chapter of John ye shall find there that our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ takes a towel and water and fals down at the feet of his Disciples and washes their feet verse the 4. He riseth from supper and laid aside his garments and took a towel and girded himself and after he had powred water into a besin he began to wash his Disciples feet and to wipe them with a towel When the Pharisee saw the woman come unto Christ and wash his feet and wipe them with the hair of her head he wondred and said Surely if this had been a Prophet he would not have suffered a sinner to come so neer to him Did the Pharisee wonder at this condescention That Christ should humble himself so far as to suffer a poor woman to come so neer him as to wash his feet with her tears Oh! what condescention is here for ever to be wondred at That the Lord Christ himself should down upon his knees and wash the Disciples feet that the great God of heaven and earth the second person incarnate should now come fall down at the feet of sinners Judas among them too and wash his Disciples feet When all power in heaven and earth was in his hands that with those hands he should wash the feet of sinners But stay a little It may be all power in heaven and earth was not then given into his hands Yes reade for that purpose the 3. verse that goes before this story Jesus knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands and that he was come from God and went to God he riseth from supper and laid aside his garments But though all power in heaven and earth was given into his hands it may be he did not know it Yes saies the text Jesus knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands and that he was come from God and went to God He riseth from supper and laid aside his garments and took a towel and girded himself After that he powred water into a basin and began to wash the Disciples feet Oh! what Self-Denial is here was there ever such Self-denial as here And this this does the Gospel hold forth unto ye and only to be learned in the Gospel Thirdly The more I see my self a debter unto Jesus Christ for all my Gifts and for all my Graces the more Humble I shall be and the more I shall deny my self in spiritual things Ye know how it is with a man that ows for his Cloaths Possibly a man may wear brave and fine Cloaths but he ows for them at such a shop While he is abroad he swaggers and is proud of his Cloaths but when he comes into the shop where he ows for them and looks upon the book and what he hath to pay he strikes sail then and is more modest ashamed and blushes The Gospel is the great Shop from whence we have al our gifts and al our graces and when I come into the Gospel there I see how infinitly I am a debter to Free-grace for al I have and though I may be proud in spirit at another time yet if I come into the Gospel and see what an infinite debter to Free-grace I am for all that ever I wear upon the back of my soul then I think Oh! what cause have I to be humble Shall I be proud shall not I deny my self in Spiritual things I say this Gospel is the Shop of all our Gifts and all our Graces Fourthly True saving justifying faith is an Emptying grace it brings Christ into the soul and when Christ comes into the soul all other things must out As when a King or Prince comes into a House the Master of the house goes out of his own lodging and all must out to make room for the Prince So when Christ comes into ones soul then all goes out all other things go out 'T is in our beleeving on Jesus Christ as in our beleeving on God the Father Joh. 14.1 Ye beleeve in God saies Christ beleeve also in me Look how ye beleeve in God the Father so do ye beleeve in me Now as when a man does beleeve in God the Father for Provision for outward Provision as seeing an Al-sufficiencie in God to Provide then he sees an In-sufficiencie in all the creatures to help and never before So when a man comes to beleeve in Christ when he sees that Al-sufficiency that is in Christ to Redeem and satisfie for him then he sees an In-sufficiency in all his own Duties and Righteousness and never till then The truth is A man cannot come to Christ unless he do forsake all As ye cannot come to this side of the water or river unlesse you come from that side of the river Now faith it is nothing else but a Coming to Jesus Christ and therefore where ever there is true saving justifying faith a man does Deny himself in Spiritual things he cannot write an I upon his own Performance upon his own Duties Applyca If so if al these things be true How hard a thing is it for a man to Beleeve how few are there in the world that do Beleeve indeed True saving justifying faith it makes a man Abundant in the work of the Lord it makes a man live a spiritual life but then it takes away that I from him he cannot write an I upon what he does as formerly he hath done It makes a man live a Spiritual life but it makes him also to Deny that Spiritual life There are Four streams that this Spiritual life is divided into The stream of Performance The stream of Obedience The stream of our Sufferings The stream of Enjoyment True saving faith and the Gospel makes a man to Deny himself in all these As for our Performance and Obedience ye know what the Apostle saies concerning himself Thus and thus I was and thus and thus I have lived but now I count all things as dung and drosse in regard of Christ As for our Sufferings I have read of some Martyrs in the Primitive times that being in prison and ready to suffer divers came to comfort them and called them Blessed Martyrs No say they we are not worthy of the Name of Martyrs by no means they would not bear it that they should call them Martyrs Denied themselves in their Sufferings As for our Enjoyment Ye know what the Apostle saies I desire to be dissolved and to be with Christ which is best of all Phil. 1.23 Nevertheless for your sakes saies he c. I am in a

taken from us and we have not a better life what a sad condition shall we be in Wherefore I beseech ye in the Lord labor to get another life this Spiritual life that shall never be taken from you and the Lord give you hearts to do it Quest But you will say How should that be done Answ Come unto Jesus Christ whatever thou beest man or woman now come unto Jesus Christ Saies the Lord Christ They will not come unto me that they might have life John 5.40 There are Three things that keep men from Coming to Jesus Christ one thing is Mens Negligence men think they can repent afterward and they may have Christ afterward and so for the present they neglect coming to Jesus Christ Sometimes nay alwaies Vnbelief keeps men off from comming to Jesus Christ For as faith brings Christ and the Soul together So Unbelief keeps a man from coming to Jesus Christ And another thing is Vnwillingnes to part with all for Jesus Christ The young man ye have read of in the Gospel went away sorrowful when Christ said to him Go and sel al to come to Christ so he did not come to Christ upon that account And so when we come to men and women and say You must come to Christ and leave all your former Company Nay say they I can have Christ better cheap upon better terms and I cannot leave my Company and my merry meetings and so they come not to Christ But I beseech you in the Lord Come unto Jesus Christ Oh! what ever thou hast been Come unto Jesus Christ that you may have life Object I know many will say I have been long dead in my trespasses and sins and I fear there is no hope of life for me Answ Now mark what I say to that and so I wil end al. There are Three mentioned in the Gospel whom Christ raised from the dead One a Maid that lay in her fathers house and Christ came in and took her by the hand and said unto her Arise Another was a Young-man that was carried out of his fathers house and was laid out upon the Hearse and Christ came and said unto him Arise And the third was Lazarus that had been four dayes dead and stank again and Christ speaks to Lazarus and he comes forth And these Three saies Austin shews those that Christ wil raise up from the dead again The first the maid that lay in her fathers house notes that sort of sinners that commit Secret sins never come abroad never come into act The second the son that was carried out of his fathers house and laid upon the Hearse notes that sort of sinners that sin openly Swearers and Drunkards whose sins are abroad And the Third that of Lazarus notes that sort of sinner that hath lien so long in the grave that he even smels again Now I pray further observe this That when Christ came to raise Lazarus then Christ prayed but he did not pray when he raised the other two and he groan'd over him he did not groan over the maid nor over the young-man but he groan'd over Lazarus to shew the difficulty of raising a poor sinner from the dead that hath lien long in his sin And therefore if there be ever a poor soul here that is dead in his sins Oh! go to Christ while thou art young and fall down before him and say Oh! Lord I have a dead heart of mine own Oh! let me have life from thee But whether thou beest young or old here is yet hope Lazarus raised as well as the young-maid young-man Lazarus that lay til he stank again in the grave and therefore yet there is hope though thou hast lien long Wherfore in the Name of the Lord I beseech you all Come unto Jesus Christ this morning If there be ever a poor dead soul in this Congregation as may be some there is some Drunkard crept in some Swearer some Unclean wanton Well if there be ever a dead soul in this Congregation now go to Christ that thou mayest have life and I say to thee Awake thou that sleepest and stand up from the dead and the Lord Jesus give us life SERMON II. Preached at Stepney July 9. 1648. GALATIANS 2. part of the 20. vers Nevertheless I live yet not I but Christ liveth in me YE heard the last day that two things especially are observable from these words First That every godly gracious man is a living man is in the state of life lives a spiritual life And this I have spoken to Doct. 2 Secondly That our justification by faith alone is no enemy but a real friend unto this our Spiritual life Nevertheless 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and now I live but now I live As if he should say I never did live before but now being justified by faith alone and having the experience of this great Truth Now I live At the 16. verse he had said That a man is not justified by the works of the Law but by the faith of Jesus Christ Whereupon it was or might be objected If a man be not justified by the works of the Law then is he free from the Law then is he dead unto the Law then may a man live as he lists Nay not so saies the Apostle at the 19. verse For I through the Law am dead to the Law that I might live to God quite contrary That I might live to God I am dead to the Law Yea and though I am crucified with Christ yet now I live and I never did live till now but now I live This very principle of justification by faith alone is the fountain and original of all my spiritual life And thus indeed you shall find for if you look into those three Epistles of Paul To the Romans the Galatians and the Hebrews ye shall find that the Apostle does give this as the rise unto all his Exhortations unto Holiness of life In the latter end of the Epistle to the Romans the Apostle does exhort unto holy practises and to a godly conversation but in the begining he does state and prove this Doctrine of Justification by faith alone So in this Epistle to the Galatians So in the Epistle to the Hebrews As if the only rise of all our Holiness and Godly Conversation were this Our Free-justification through the Blood of Christ by faith alone For the opening and cleering of this great Truth I shal spend a little time in the Explication of the terms First Justification by faith alone Secondly I shall labor to demonstrate this Truth unto you That Justification by faith alone Is the Fountain and Original of all our Holiness and Spiritual life Thirdly Answer to some Objections Fourthly Labor to shew ye What there is in this Free-justification by faith alone that may can or doth advance our Holiness Quest 1 What is meant by this Justification by faith alone Answ That I may be understood by the meanest