The Works of William Bridge

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Banner of Truth Trust.  dw's.  5 vols.Times of difficulty and of persecution have always been seasons in which Godâ s ministers shine with greatest lustre.â These words from the memoir of Bridge contained in these collected Works of William Bridge serve to remind readers of the context in which William Bridge lived and worked. Born in Cambridgeshire around 1600, Bridge entered Emmanuel College, Cambridge in 1619, where he earned a bachelorâ s degree in 1623 and a masterâ s degree in 1626, before serving as a fellow of the college.He was ordained a priest in the Church of England in 1627, and served in Saffron Walden and Colchester in Essex, then becoming rector of St Peter Hungate in Norwich in 1632. In 1636 he was forced to flee to Rotterdam in Holland because of Bishop Matthew Wrenâ s campaign against nonconformity. There he co-pastored a church with John Ward and then Jeremiah Burroughs.Returning to England in 1641, the following year he was appointed a member of the Westminster Assembly, and proved himself a noted Independent. That same year he accepted a position as town preacher at Yarmouth, where he organized an Independent church, and formally became its pastor in the autumn of 1643. He laboured there until 1662, when he was ejected by the Act of Uniformity.Bridge spent his last years at Yarmouth and Clapham, Surrey, where he died in March 1670.William Bridge was an excellent preacher, able scholar, and prolific writer with a well-furnished library, but he was no ivory tower theologian. His parishioners viewed him as a charitable and candid pastor whose ministry helped many people.Volume One contains:Memoir of the AuthorThe Great Gospel Mystery of the Saintsâ Comfort and Holiness opened and ­applied from Christâ s Priestly OfficeSatanâ s Power to Tempt and Christâ s Love to and Care of his People under ­TemptationGrace for Grace, or the Overflowings of Christâ s Fulness received by all SaintsThe Spiritual Life and In-being of Christ in all BelieversScripture Light the Most Sure LightThe Righteous Manâ s Habitation in the Time of Plague and PestilenceVolume Two contains:A Lifting up for the DowncastThe Spiritual Actings of Faith through Natural ImpossibilitiesThe Great Things Faith can doThe Great Things Faith can sufferThe Freeness of Christ and Love of God to Believers discoveredVolume Three contains:Christ and the Covenant, the Work and Way of Meditation, Godâ s return to the Soul or Nation, together with his Preventing MercyChrist in TravailSeasonable Truths in Evil TimesVolume Four contains:Seventeen Single Sermons on Various Subjects and OccasionsEvangelical RepentanceVolume Five contains:The Sinfulness of Sin and the Fulness of ChristRemainsA Word to the AgedThe Wounded Conscience Cured and the Weak One StrengthenedThe Truth of the Times VindicatedThe Loyal Convert, According to the Oxford Copy, with Annotations thereonThe Doctrine of Justification by faith opened and appliedGeneral Inde.

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