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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29371	I. Scripture-light the most sure light ... delivered in three sermons on 2 Pet. I. 19 : II. Christ in travel ... in three sermons on Isai. 53. 11 : III. A lifting up for the down-cast ... delivered in thirteen sermons on Psal. 42, 11 : four several sermons ... / preached by William Bridge ...	Bridge, William, 1600?-1670.	1656 (1656)	Wing B4462; ESTC R34370	561,325	608

Assurance is not that unbelief that shall damn ones soul to all Eternity not that unbelief which Christ threatens with damnation For if you look into John 3.18 you shall find our Savior speaking thus He that beleeveth on him is not condemned but he that beleeveth not is condemned already because he hath not beleeved in the Name of the only begotten Son of God But now lest any poor soul that would fain beleeve and cannot should be afflicted and troubled at these words therefore saith our Savior Christ in the following words I wil tel you wherein lies the damnableness of Unbelief verse 19. This is the Condemnation he speaks in relation to the words before And this is the Condemnation That Light is come into the World and men love Darkness rather than Light because their deeds are evil For every one that doth evil hateth the light neither cometh to the light lest his deeds should be reproved or discovered This Light is Christ Now therefore Doest thou hate the Light Christ and therefore keepest from it lest thy deeds should be discovered Or rather on the contrary Doest thou not know there are evil deeds in thy life and much evil in thy heart and doest thou not therefore desire to come to Christ who is the true Light that thy deeds may be discovered and thy sin amended Then though thou canst not beleeve as thou wouldest and though thou doest want Assurance and though thou hast much Unbelief in thee the Lord Jesus Christ hath spoken it Thou shalt never be ●●ndemned to all Eternity for this want but the Lord Christ will pardon this unto thee and therefore certainly upon this account Gods People have no reason for their discouragement Secondly If there be such an over-ruling hand of Grace and mercy upon the want of the Saints Assurance as that it shal work to their and to others good then they have no reason to be quite discouraged although they do want Assurance Heb. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 festinavit celeriter motus fuit vel cum timore fugit Septuag 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Chald Paraph. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in fuga Hierom in stupore meo Vnde metuebatur suspicio firma fit certitudo Bernard Apud Gersonem memini me legisse narra iunculam c. resert ille se● n●vi●fe hominem pium pulsa tum et vexatum crebris dubitationibus etiam in fidei articulo qui enim ad extremum in tantam lucem veritatis et certitudinis introductus est ut nulla resderet vacillatio in ejus anima neque plus dubitaret de ea re quam de vita sua quinetiam addit hanc certitudinem non ex nova alicujus ratione aut demonstratione ortum fuisse sed ex captivatione intellectus atque abmirabili quadam Dei illuminatione a mentibus aeternis Davenant Colos cap. 2. p. 160. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 nequaquam duplex negatio fortius negat Fieri non potent ut bene de fide scribat aut recte Scripta bene intelligat qui non spiritum ejusdem urgentibus tribulationibus aliquando gustaverit Luther As for their own good Thereby they do gain experience thereby they come to see the emptiness and nothingness of all their own righteousness David saith ye know the Scripture Psal 116. I said in my hast all men are Lyers The words in the Hebrew may be read I said in my shaking I said in my shaking all men are Lyers David was shaken by men and then he saw that men were Lyers So when a man is shaken in his own righteousness then he sees the emptiness and the lying disposition of it and I pray when is a mans own righteousness more shaken than when he doth want assurance of Gods Love Thereby also a man comes to get more and stronger assurance of Gods Love Certissimum est quod certum est post incertitudinem That is most certain that is certain after uncertainty The shaken Tree grows the strongest It is observed of Thomas that of all the Apostles he cryed out and said My Lord and My God Two My's not one My My Lord or My God but two My's My Lord and My God Two My's Why Because he had had two No's before Vnless I may put my finger into his side I will not beleeve So you read it but in the Original there are two No's I will not not beleeve a double Not. And as there was two No's of Unbelief so there is two My's of Faith So far as a good man is sunk in Unbelief so far he wil rise in Faith so much as a man is shaken by Unbelief and in the want of Assurance so much he will rise unto Assurance and be confirmed and setled in it And as for Others A man is never more fit to comfort to relieve to satisfie others in their fears than when he hath been in fears and doubting himself It is a good Speech that Maldonet hath out of Bernard Citius quidem ego qui infirmus sum I would rather beleeve doubting Thomas than confident Peter I would rather beleeve poor doubting Thomas than Peter that never doubted Thomas having once doubted knew how to deal with a poor doubting soul Thus I say God doth order the want of the Assurance of his Servants unto their Own and Others good and therefore no reason that they should be cast down and quite discouraged although they do want Assurance for the present Thirdly If a man a gracious man may have comfort yea and live comfortably although he do want Assurance then he hath no reason to be quite discouraged in case he want it Now though it may seem a Paradox to you yet you shall find a Truth in it I say a man thae hath no Assurance for the present may have Comfort yea he may live comfortably if things be rightly ordered For He that hath no Assurance may have Hope and Hope is comfortable He that hath no Assurance may yet rely upon Jesus Christ and stay his soul upon Christ and in all relyance there is some comfort He that hath no Assurance may be justified and being justified by faith we have peace with God He that hath no Assurance may submit unto Gods Commandements and saith the Psalmist The entrance into thy Commandements giveth Light and so Comfort In keeping thy Commandements there is great reward and so Comfort Citius quidem ego qui infirmus sum crediderim Thomae dubitanti et pulpanti quam Petro audienti et credenti Maldon in Nov. Test p. 34. It is a comfortable thing saith Solomon to behold the Light and in all light there is some Comfort Now God is light and the free Grace and Love of God is light which a man may behold that hath no Assurance You do somtimes take a great deal of Contentment in the reading of a Story I do not mean a Scripture Story but in other Books I say a man somtimes takes a great deal of contentment in