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Christ Dying and Drawing Sinners to Himself
Christ dying and drawing sinners to himself, or, A survey of our Saviour in his soul-suffering, his loveliness in his death, and the efficacy thereof in which some cases of soul-trouble in week believers ... are opened ... delivered in sermons on the Evangel according to S. John Chap. XII, vers. 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33 ... / by Samuel Rutherford.Christ dying and drawing sinners to himself, or, A survey of our Saviour in his soule-suffering, his lovelynesse in his death, and the efficacie thereof in which some cases of soule-trouble in weeke beleevers ... are opened ... delivered in sermons on the Evangel according to S. John Chap. XII, vers. 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33 ... / by Samuel Rutherford.
London: printed by J.D. for Andrew Crooke, 1647
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Asser. 4. Sins of youth already pardoned as touching the obligation to eternal wrath, 1may so rise against the child of God, as he hath need to ask the forgiveness of them, as touching the removing of present wrath, sense of the want of Gods presence, of the influence of his love, the cloud of sadness and deadness, through the want of the joy of the Holy Ghost, and ancient consolations of the days of old. Psal. 90.7. We are consumed in thy wrath, and by thy hot displeasure we are terrified. Vers. 8. Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, and our secret sin in the light of thy face. This was not a motion of the flesh in Moses the man of God. Antinomians may so dream, the fury of the Lord waxed hot against his people: so saith the Spirit of God: nor is this conceit of theirs to be credited against the Text that Moses speaketh in regard of the reprobate party; Moses by immediate inspiration doth not pray for the beauty and glory of the Lord, in the sense of his love to be manifested on a reprobate party. Antinomian Preachers in our times confess sins in public,2 but its the sins of the reprobate and carnal multitude, that are in the Society mixed with the godly; they think it a work of the flesh to confess their own sins: this is to steal the word of the Lord from his people. So David, Psal. 25.7. Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions. The sins of his youth, as touching obligation to eternal wrath, were pardoned, I question it not; but in regard, God was turned from him in the flamings of love, and his sins sealed up in a bag in regard of innumerable evils that lay on him: he prayeth, Vers. 16. Turn thee unto me. Hebr. Set thy countenance on me. Gods favour in the sense of it, was turned away; and Vers. 18. Look upon mine affliction and pain, and forgive all my sins; the word [Greek or Hebrew] with a point in the left side of [Greek or Hebrew]. is to carry away. Jerome aufer, take away all my sins Isai. 53.4. he carried, or did bear as a burden our iniquities. Vatablus, portavit. Pagnin. parce, condona, Spare or pardon all my sins: then sin here is pardoned only according to the present pain and grief of body and soul that was on David,