![]() His parishioners viewed him as a charitable and candid pastor whose ministry helped many people. ![]() William Bridge was an excellent preacher, able scholar, and prolific writer with a well-furnished library, but he was no ivory tower theologian. Perhaps God seems far at, and we feel bereft and alone. sometimes, like the psalmist, we are downcast and disturbed, dejected and in turmoil, anxious and fearful, overwhelmed, even despairing. He laboured there until 1662, when he was ejected by the Act of Uniformity.īridge spent his last years at Yarmouth and Clapham, Surrey, where he died in March 1670. Lifting Up the Downcast by Patrick Sookhdeo 4.18 Rating details 28 ratings 8 reviews Life can bring many challenges, uncertainties & sorrows. That same year he accepted a position as town preacher at Yarmouth, where he organized an Independent church, and formally became its pastor in autumn 1643. Hyperlinked with hundreds of embedded Scripture references and helpful footnotes, this edition is an entirely new, gently modernized text that is approachable to modern readers, yet. Returning to England in 1641, the following year he was appointed a member of the Westminster Assembly, and proved himself a noted Independent. In 'A Lifting up for the Downcast', Puritan Pastor William Bridge reasons that there is no reason for discouragement, no matter what cause and conditions may arise. In 1636 he was forced to flee to Rotterdam in Holland, because of Bishop Matthew Wren’s campaign against nonconformity, and co-pastored a church there with John Ward and then Jeremiah Burroughs. 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. THE CURE OF DISCOURAGEMENTS BY FAITH IN JESUS CHRIST.William Bridge in Cambridgeshire around 1600 and entered Emmanuel College, Cambridge in 1619, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in 1623 and a master’s degree in 1626, before serving as a fellow at the college. A LIFTING UP IN CASE OF DISCOURAGEMENTS DRAWN FROM THE CONDITION ITSELF. To encourage the depressed, Bridge wrote this choice book and filled it with the kind of rich encouragement which our.7. A LIFTING UP IN CASE OF UNSERVICEABLENESS. A LIFTING UP IN CASE OF MISCARRIAGE OF DUTIES. SERMON IV - A LIFTING UP IN CASE OF GREAT SINS SAINTS SHOULD NOT BE DISCOURAGED WHATEVER THEIR CONDITION BE ![]() In dealing with believers suffering from spiritual depression, Bridge manifests great insight into the causes of the saints’ discouragements such as. These thirteen sermons on Psalm 42:11, preached at Stepney, London, in the year 1648 are the work of a true physician of souls. "And the Lord Jesus Christ and our God, even the Father, which hath loved us, and hath given us everlasting consolation, and good hope through grace, comfort thine heart, and stablish thee in every word, and good work." A Lifting Up for the Downcast (William Bridge) 11.00 9.75. Hold fast what thou hast, lest another take thy crown. 17:29, "I know thy pride, and malice of thine heart, that thou art come down to see the battle might answer, as David did, "Is there not a cause?" When strange opinions and errors are daily published, is there not a cause, that every man, who loves the truth, should bear his testimony for it? In performance therefore of mine own duty, and for thine establishment, I have spoken something to many truths, which are now questioned. And if any man shall say to me, as David's brother Eliab spake to him, 1 Sam. Neither have I undertaken any English adversary and if I have trodden upon any man's toes, I hope he will excuse me, for I can say truly, Sir, I saw you not. For I know the Universities have able and faithful men, more fit for that work. I have also joined with them, some other Sermons, of more doctrinal concernment, these being mostly practical, that so thy mind and heart may be at once exercised: wherein I have rather applied myself to the instructive part of preaching, than to scholastical disputation. Mine own notes were not legible enough for the press: in answer therefore to their desires, I have corrected these: some things I have altered, some things added, and some repetitions (fit enough for the pulpit) I have filed off what is wanting let thy goodness supply. They have been long buried in silence, and should have rested in their grave, had not the importunity of some, who heard them preached, raised them from that death. He writes how even through discouragements because any circumstance (sin, temtpation, etc.) the Christian should not be downcast in thinking that Christ has let them go. This work from William Bridge is a reflection on Psalm 42:11. The following Sermons on Psalm 42: I have perused, and find that they are the same which I preached divers years since, being then taken by a good pen as they fell in preaching. A Lifting Up For The Downcast (Vintage Puritan) Paperback December 11, 2014.
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