Status Updates From The Works of William Bridge...

Finished my second reading of Lifting Up of the Downcast. It is an excellence counseling resource, and I have found it an excellence preaching resource. Bridge helped me preach to a variety of spiritual conditions and their objections.

“Carry this for a rule with you, and remember it much; that the less assurance you have, the more precious your obedience may be, and the more kindly God may take it at your hands.”

“A man is to be humbled for his sin, although it be never so small, but he is not to be discouraged for his sin, though it be never so great.”

His distinction between darkness of the night and the darkness of a cloud would go a long way in helping pastors counseling people through depression and spiritual desertion.

“As it was His last words when He left them, so it is the first word that now He useth when He seeth them again. But, O Lord, we have sinned greatly since we saw Thee. Be it so, yet “peace be unto you." But, O Lord, here is Peter among us, that hath denied Thee since Thou sawest us. Be it so, I know it very well, yet "Peace be unto." Peace when He went away, and peace when He came again; this is his language.”