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William Bridge

1600–1671

Yarmouth Independent; *A Lifting Up for the Downcast*.

The Five Dissenting Brethren (Independents)

Departs from the Confession on Polity: Independent-Congregational not Presbyterian-Jure-Divino

Biography

Of Emmanuel Cambridge, then Colchester ministry until Laud's persecutions drove him into exile in Rotterdam (1636-1641) — where he was co-pastor with Sidrach Simpson at the English Reformed Independent congregation. He returned to England in 1641 and was settled at Great Yarmouth from 1643, where he led the East Anglian Independent cause for almost thirty years. A Lifting Up for the Downcast (1648) — a series of sermons preached to spiritually depressed believers in the dark years of the Civil War — is his pastoral classic and one of the most affecting Puritan devotional works of the seventeenth century. A signatory of the Apologeticall Narration (1644). Ejected from Yarmouth in 1662, he ministered to a private congregation there until his death in 1671.

Principal works

An Apologeticall Narration (1644)
A Lifting Up for the Downcast (1648)
The Saints Hiding-Place (1646)

Role at the Assembly

Independent / Dissenting Brethren

A small but articulate minority of Congregationalist divines — the 'Dissenting Brethren' — who pressed for a gathered-church polity against the Presbyterian majority. Their Apologeticall Narration (1644) and their dissents in the Grand Debate over church government shaped the Confession's carefully worded chapters and anticipated the Savoy Declaration of 1658.

Party in 2 cruxes

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I. ✦ Scripture

Sufficiency Express-And-Good-Consequence Canon 66-Book-Protestant-Canon Authority Self-Authenticating-With-Internal-Witness Interpretation Scripture-Interprets-Scripture Necessity Necessary-After-The-Fall

II. ✠ God & Decree

Trinity Nicene-With-Filioque Order of Decrees Deliberately-Permits-Both Extent of Atonement Particular Reprobation Preterition-And-Just-Condemnation Covenant of Redemption Implicit-Affirmed

III. ⊕ Covenant

Number of Covenants Bi-Covenantal Mosaic Covenant Administration-Of-Grace Children of Believers Federal-Inclusion-Paedobaptist Testamental Continuity One-Substance-Different-Administrations

IV. ☧ Christology

Natures Chalcedonian-Two-Natures Offices Prophet-Priest-King States & Descent Humiliation-And-Exaltation; No-Local-Descent Active-Obedience Imputation Active-And-Passive-Obedience-Imputed

V. ✚ Soteriology

Effectual Calling Effectual-And-Renewing Justification Ground Imputed-Righteousness-Of-Christ Saving Faith Receptive-Resting-On-Christ-Alone Perseverance Certain-For-The-Elect Assurance Attainable-But-Not-Essence-Of-Faith

VI. ⚖ Law & Sanctification

Uses of the Law Three-Uses-Affirmed Tripartite Division Moral-Judicial-Ceremonial Sabbath Lords-Day-Fourth-Commandment-Perpetual Good Works Necessary-Fruit-Not-Meritorious

VII. ☩ Ecclesiology & Worship

Polity Independent-Congregational Presbyterian-Jure-Divino Sacramental Efficacy Signs-And-Seals-Conferring-Grace-By-Spirit Regulative Principle Strict-Only-What-Commanded Censures & Synods Three-Degrees-With-Graded-Synods

VIII. ⌛ Civil & Last Things

Magistrate's Role Custos-Utriusque-Tabulae (1646) Oaths & Marriage Oaths-Lawful-Serious; Divorce-Adultery-Or-Desertion Intermediate State Immediate-Conscious-With-God-Or-Judgment Final Judgment Single-Universal-Judgment-By-Christ

Cite this divine

Study Reformed, “William Bridge” (Divine), Westminster Standards Atlas, version 79a5f9880ac1, https://studyreformed.com/atlas/cite/persona/william-bridge/.

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