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A Lifting Up for the Downcast (William Bridge) (#1)
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These thirteen sermons on Psalm 42:11, preached at Stepney, London, in the year 1648 are the work of a true physician of souls. In dealing with believers suffering from spiritual depression, Bridge manifests great insight into the causes of the saints’ discouragements such as great sins, weak grace, failure in duties, want of assurance, temptation, desertion and affliction.
A correct diagnosis is more than half the cure, but Bridge does not leave his readers there. He gives directions for applying the remedy. For example, in dealing with ‘great sins’ he says: “If you would be truly humbled and not be discouraged; not be discouraged and yet be humbled; then beat and drive up all your sin to your unbelief, and lay the stress and weight of all your sorrow upon that sin.”
The general causes of spiritual depression are the same in every age. Downcast Christians today can find help here as surely as did past generations.
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A Lifting Up for the Downcast
These thirteen sermons on Psalm 42:11, preached at Stepney, London, in the year 1648 are the work of a true physician of souls. In dealing with believers suffering from spiritual depression, Bridge manifests great insight into the causes of the saints’ discouragements such as great sins, weak grace, failure in duties, want of assurance, temptation, desertion and affliction.
A correct diagnosis is more than half the cure, but Bridge does not leave his readers there. He gives directions for applying the remedy. For example, in dealing with ‘great sins’ he says: “If you would be truly humbled and not be discouraged; not be discouraged and yet be humbled; then beat and drive up all your sin to your unbelief, and lay the stress and weight of all your sorrow upon that sin.”
The general causes of spiritual depression are the same in every age. Downcast Christians today can find help here as surely as did past generations.
Table of Contents
| Thirteen Sermons, on Psalm 42. 11 | ||
| The Good Man’s Peace | 7 | |
| True Peace may be Interrupted | 29 | |
| Saints Should not be Discourage Whatever their Condition be | 47 | |
| A Lifting Up in the Case of Great Sins | 67 | |
| A Lifting Up in the Case of Weak Grace | 88 | |
| A Lifting Up in the Case of Miscarriage of Duties | 106 | |
| A Lifting Up in the Lack of Assurance | 128 | |
| A Lifting Up in the Case of Temptation | 152 | |
| A Lifting Up in the Case of Desertion | 173 | |
| A Lifting Up in the Case of Affliction | 192 | |
| A Lifting Up in the Case of Unserviceableness | 213 | |
| A Lifting Up in the Case of Discouragements Drawn from the Condition Itself | 235 | |
| The Cure of Discouragements by Faith in Jesus Christ | 262 |
About the Author
Born in Cambridgeshire around 1600, William 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 at 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 Wren’s campaign against nonconformity, and co-pastored a church there 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 autumn 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.
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