A57963:534
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.
1It were good, if we could believe that the [Greek or Hebrew] of the world, the figure and paintrie of this house of lost men, 1 Cor. 7.30. is in a trance, and passing away; ah! are ye conformed ⟨p. 197⟩to the World? Your condition is woeful. The World swears, and so do you, the World serves the time in Religion, and so do you; the World is vain in their apparel; the World cousins, lies, whores, and so do you; the world hates Christ, and his friends, and so do you; the World lies in sin, it is the fashion of the World, and so do you. Oh! if you would be conformed to the new World, in righteousness and holiness. 1. The in-dwellers are all the children of a King, and Princes, and their mother a Princes daughter. 2. The lowest piece of the dwelling house of that other World, the heavens, we see are curious work; any one pearl, or candle of Sun, or Moon, or Stars, is worth the whole Earth, setting aside the souls of men. 3. The foundation of the City is precious Stones, Revel. 21. &c. What fools are we, who kill every one another for pieces and bits of the Lords lowest foot-stool; for the earth, the seat of the worldly man, is but the foot-stool of God.
1It were good, if wee could beleeve that the 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 of the world, the figure and paintrie of this house of lost men, 1 Cor. 7.30. is in a transe, and passing away; ah! are yee conform'd ⟨p. 197⟩to the World? Your condition is woefull. The World sweares, and so doe you, the World serves the time in Religion, and so doe you; the World is vaine in their apparell; the World cousens, lyes, whores, and so doe you; the world hates Christ, and his friends, and so doe you; the World lyes in sinne, it is the fashion of the World, and so doe you. Oh! if you would be conformed to the new World, in righteousnesse and holynesse. 1. The in-dwellers are all the children of a King, and Princes, and their mother a Princes daughter. 2. The lowest piece of the dwelling house of that other World, the heavens, we see are curious worke; any one pearle, or candle of Sunne, or Moone, or Starres, is worth the whole Earth, setting aside the soules of men. 3. The foundation of the City is precious Stones,