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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.
Satan doth so mist and delude the weak believers,1 that because they will not mourn, nor be humbled, for real objects, sins, unbelief, mis-spending of time, which are true causes of sorrow and mourning, they waste sorrow needlessly and sinfully, the righteous dispensation of God intervening, for false and supposed causes, as through ignorance, for these things that are not sins, yet are falsely conceived to be sins; or through mis-apprehension, imagining that the Lord is changed, and become their utter enemy, when he cannot forget them, Isai. 49.14, 15. or through mis-judging their own state, conceiving they are reprobates, when there is no such matter. So when we will not duly object, place and time our affections, its righteousness with God that we lose our labour, and spill and feed away our affections prodigally, in a wood of thorns, for nothing; because we do not give them out for Christ: and so we must sow, and never reap. But Christ could not thus lavish away his fear, sorrow, sadness. I know there is a forsaking in God, 2joined with hatred: God neither in this sense forsook Christ, nor did Christ complain of this forsaking. God's forsaking of him, was in regard of the influence of actual vision, 2. of the actual joy and comfort of union, 3. of the penal inflicting of the curse, wrath, sorrow, sadness, stripes, death, on the man Christ.
Satan doth so myst and delude the weake beleevers,1 that because they will not mourne, nor be humbled, for reall objects, sins, unbeleefe, mis-spending of time, which are true causes of sorrow and mourning, they waste sorrow needlesly and sinfully, the righteous dispensation of God intervening, for false and supposed causes, as through ignorance, for these things that are not sins, yet are falsly conceived to be sins; or through mis-apprehension, imagining that the Lord is changed, and become their utter enemy, when hee cannot forget them, Isai. 49.14, 15. or through mis-judging their owne state, conceiving they are reprobates, when there is no such matter. So when wee will not duely object, place and time our affections, its righteousnesse with God that wee lose our labour, and spill and feed away our affections prodigally, in a wood of thorns, for nothing; because wee doe not give them out for Christ: and so wee must sow, and never reap. But Christ could not thus lavish away his feare, sorrow, sadnesse. I know there is a forsaking in God,