Extracts from sermons by William Bridge M.A. 1600-1670.
Issue: Volume 11
The wheels in a clock move in contrary directions, yet all serve the end of the maker, to show the time. So in the world, the providence of God may seem to be opposed to His promises, yet all are accomplishing His will, and answer the purpose of God, Creator of all things.
THE WORLD How many errors have arisen in the interpretation of God’s Word, through men insisting that the word “world” be understood always in a absolutely universal sense. In the Gospels and in the Epistles of John, and in most other places of Scripture, the word is used with limitations. In I John 4.14, for …
POOR IN SPIRIT The Lord Jesus Christ gave this as the Alpha of His teaching. His first sermon, in the first Gospel, opened with these words – “Blessed are the poor in spirit.” (Mt. 5.3). It was also the Omega of Christ’s words. “Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have …
CHRISTÂ’S TENDERNESS TO THE WEAK (1) When a gardener looks over his plants, there are some that need particular care and attention because of their delicate nature. They need shielding from frost, and from everything that can hinder them OR injure them. So also the Good Shepherd watches over the weak lambs of His flock, …
So that ye come behind in no gift; waiting for the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ: Who shall also confirm you unto the end that ye may be blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ I Cor. 1.78.
THE FIERY FURNACE We live in a day when, for the most part, a Christian witness and testimony is very little regarded and at times calls down the hatred of a sinful world on those who seek to maintain it. Realizing that, let us draw some lessons from the well-known, yet perhaps often neglected, narrative …
Had we more of Sabbath-days’ thoughts on week-days, then week-day thoughts would less trouble us on Sabbath days. John Willison