A Lifting Up for the Downcast, William Bridge
A Lifting Up for the Downcast, William Bridge
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A Lifting Up for the Downcast

Author: William Bridge

Narrator: Wayne Evans

Unabridged: 11 hr 55 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/13/2025

Synopsis

In A Lifting Up for the Downcast, Puritan preacher William Bridge offers a profound exploration of spiritual depression through thirteen powerful sermons on Psalm 42:11, originally delivered in Stepney, London, in 1648. As a true physician of souls, Bridge skillfully diagnoses the heart's deepest afflictions, addressing the struggles that believers face, including great sins, weak grace, failure in duties, lack of assurance, temptation, desertion, and affliction.Bridge's insights are timeless; the causes of spiritual discouragement he identifies resonate just as deeply with twenty-first-century Christians as they did with those from past generations. But he doesn't stop at diagnosis. With compassion and clarity, Bridge provides practical directions for applying the remedy, ensuring that readers not only understand their struggles but also find a pathway to hope and renewal.For anyone feeling weighed down by despair, A Lifting Up for the Downcast is an essential companion, offering encouragement and guidance to uplift the spirit and restore the joy of salvation. 

Reviews

Goodreads review by Douglas on June 01, 2014

A marvelous book. I have been chipping away at this book for some time, using a page or two of it as a quarry for my weekly meditations on the Lord's Supper. My reason for doing that is that I wanted those meditations to be encouraging, and who is more encouraging than the Puritans? And this book onc......more

Goodreads review by Becky on January 29, 2024

2024: fantastic. 2021: Love this book so much. What a blessed reminder that there is always a way out of all kinds of discouragements for the believers: Christ and His promises. 2019:What a blessing to be able to read the Puritans! This book was of great encouragement for me in a particular hard seas......more

Goodreads review by Knox on May 18, 2024

No review can do this book justice. Bridge blends profound theology, intense pastoral concern and love, striking and memorable images, and a wonderful way with words to produce exactly what is advertised by the title: a lifting up for the downcast. Bridge walks through every reason a Christian might......more

Goodreads review by Scott on January 18, 2016

This is one of the more encouraging books by the Puritans, who tend to be very encouraging and practical in their writings. The chapter I found to be most encouraging was "A Lifting up in the Case of Great Sins." The following lines are characteristic of William Bridge’s thought, "Let Christians car......more

Goodreads review by Ashley on December 02, 2018

Typically puritan in style, Bridge is a physician of the soul and examines every cause of discouragement in the life of the Christian with great wisdom and insight, seeking to draw the reader out of their darkness and to look up to the light of Christ.......more

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