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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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CHRIST DYING, AND Drawing Sinners to himself.
CHRIST DYING, AND Drawing Sinners to himselfe.
JOHN 12. 27. Now is my soul troubled: and what shall I say? Father, save me from this hour: But for this cause came I unto this hour. 28. Father, glorify thy Name.
JOHN 12. 27. Now is my soule troubled: and what shall I say? Father, save me from this houre: But for this cause came I unto this houre. 28. Father, glorifie thy Name.
IT is a question whether these words of our Saviours Soul-trouble be nothing but the same words and prayer which Matthew chap. 26. and Luke 22. relate, to wit, O my Father, 1if it be possible, let this cup pass from me, when his soul was troubled in the garden, in his agony: Some think them the same, others not. It is like they are words of the same matter; for first, when Christ uttered these words, he was near his sufferings, and on the brink of that hideous and dark sea of his most extreme pain, and drew up against hell, and the Armies of darkness; as the story showeth. But that the Lord uttered these same words in the garden, and not before, is not apparent; because upon this prayer it is said, Then came there a voice from heaven, &c. A voice speaketh to him from heaven: now,