{"product_id":"the-works-of-william-bridge-5-volume-set","title":"The Works of William Bridge, 5 Volume Set","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e‘Times of difficulty and of persecution have always been seasons in which God’s ministers shine with greatest lustre.’\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThese 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.\u003cbr\u003eBorn in Cambridgeshire around 1600, Bridge 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 of the college.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHe 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.\u003cbr\u003eIn 1636 he was forced to flee to Rotterdam in Holland because of Bishop Matthew Wren’s campaign against nonconformity. There he co-pastored a church with John Ward and then Jeremiah Burroughs.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReturning 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBridge spent his last years at Yarmouth and Clapham, Surrey, where he died in March 1670.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWilliam 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSet Contents \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eContents of Volume I\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eMemoir of the Author\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eThe Great Gospel Mystery of the Saints’ Comfort and Holiness opened and ­applied from Christ’s Priestly Office\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eSatan’s Power to Tempt and Christ’s Love to and Care of his People under ­Temptation\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eGrace for Grace, or the Overflowings of Christ’s Fulness received by all Saints\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eThe Spiritual Life and In-being of Christ in all Believers\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eScripture Light the Most Sure Light\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eThe Righteous Man’s Habitation in the Time of Plague and Pestilence\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eContents of Volume II\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eA Lifting up for the Downcast\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eThe Spiritual Actings of Faith through Natural Impossibilities\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eThe Great Things Faith can do\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eThe Great Things Faith can suffer\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eThe Freeness of Christ and Love of God to Believers discovered\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eContents of Volume III\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eChrist and the Covenant, the Work and Way of Meditation, God’s return to the Soul or Nation, together with his Preventing Mercy\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eChrist in Travail\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eSeasonable Truths in Evil Times\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eContents of Volume IV\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003e\u003cem\u003eSeventeen Single Sermons on Various Subjects and Occasions\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e\u003cem\u003eEvangelical Repentance\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eContents of Volume V\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eThe Sinfulness of Sin and the Fulness of Christ\u003cbr\u003eRemains\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eA Word to the Aged\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eThe Wounded Conscience Cured and the Weak One Strengthened\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eThe Truth of the Times Vindicated\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eThe Loyal Convert, According to the Oxford Copy, with Annotations thereon\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eThe Doctrine of Justification by faith opened and applied\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eGeneral Index\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Banner of Truth","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53009838670135,"sku":"jzc1789814320423","price":96.2,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0992\/8910\/4695\/files\/the-works-of-william-bridge-5-volume-set_1.jpg?v=1789814324","url":"https:\/\/effortlesschicclad.shop\/products\/the-works-of-william-bridge-5-volume-set","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}