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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
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Obj. 3. But what a providence is it, that those that open their mouth against heaven are fat, 1and shine, and prosper, and those that fear God are plagued every day; and killed all the day long and counted as sheep for the slaughter?
Obj. 3. But what a providence is it, that those that open their mouth against heaven are fat, 1and shine, and prosper, and those that fear God are plagued every day; and killed all the day long and counted as sheepe for the slaughter?
- 1Prosperity of the wicked, adversity of the godly not against providence.
Answ· 1. Offend not against the generation of the children of ⟨p. 143⟩God, as if it were lost labour, and as good to sow wheat in the Sea, as serve the Lord, and walk mournfully before him, you see their work, but not their wages. 2. It is painful to trace §2providence in all its ways, circuits, bout-gates, lines, turnings. But 3. surely in the end God turneth the tables, •he maketh all odds equal, the empty bucket goeth down, the full cometh §3up. 4. The Lord hath set the wicked in a chair of Gold, but on §4the top of a house, and rolling stone above the mouth of a pit ten hundred fathom deep: This is a jogging and slippery condition. 5. They slip away to eternity and to Hell in a moment. §56. Their happiness is a golden dream,