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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
To the reader: TO THE JUDICIOUS AND Godly Reader.To the reader: TO THE IVDICIOVS AND Godly Reader.
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.
5. How long he seeks; how long a night-rain wet his locks and hair! How long a night is it, he stands at the Church-door knocking? Cant. 5.1. Revel. 3.20. there be many hours in this night; since he was preached in Paradise, and yet he stands to this day, how fain would he come, and how glad would he be of lodging; the arm that hath knocked ⟨image 6⟩five thousand years aches not yet, behold he stands and knocks, and will not give over till all be his, and till the Tribes in ones and twos be over Jordan, and up with him in the good land; he cannot want one, nor half an one; yea Joh 6 39. not a bit of a Saint.
5. How long he seeks; how long a night-raine wet his locks and haire! How long a night is it, he stands at the Church-doore knocking? Cant. 5.1. Revel. 3.20. there be many houres in this night; since hee was preached in Paradice, and yet he stands to this day, how faine would he come, and how glad would he be of lodging; the arme that hath knocked ⟨image 6⟩five thousand yeares akes not yet, behold hee stands and knocks, and will not give over till all be his, and till the Tribes in ones and twees bee over Jordan, and up with him in the good land; hee cannot want one, nor halfe an one; yea Ioh 6 39. not a bit of a Saint.
6. The sinners on earth, and glorified in heaven are of one blood; they had once as foul faces, and as guilty souls on earth, as you •nd I have; ó but now they are made fair, and stand before the Throne washed, and without spot; grace and glory hath put them out of your kenning, but they are your borne brethren, all the Seas and Fountains on earth cannot wash asunder your blood and theirs, and there is not upon any in that renowned Land, the mark, impression, shadow, or stead of any blot of sin; and Christ washeth as clean now, as ever he did; you are not so black, nor so sin burnt, but he will make you white like all the rest of the children of the house, that you shall misken your self for beauty of glory; thou art at the worst a sinner, and but a sinner, and a sinner is nothing to Christ.