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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.
Answ. 1. Yea but this rod is a rod of love, only used that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus, 1 Cor. 5.5. ⟨p. 304⟩for the gaining of the soul, Mat. 18.15. for building of souls. 2 Cor. 10.8. And Christs cords are silken and soft, and bands of love, every thread twisted out of the love of Christ. Hos. 11.4. I drew them with the cords of men, with the bands of love. But consider, Psal. 48. The Lords mountain of holiness is glorious. 1Vers. 2. Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth is mount Zion, the City of the great King. But is it so to all? Vers. 5. No: But lo, the kings were assembled, they passed by together; they saw it, and so they marvelled: they were troubled, and hasted away. Vers. 6. Terror took hold on them, and pain, as a woman in travel. What cause is there here that the kings should be afraid? They see a beautiful Princess, the daughter of a glorious King, the joy of the whole earth; yet the Lords people works on them 1. a wondering; 2. more, trouble of mind; 3. flying; they haste away, and cannot behold the beauty of God in a Kings daughter: 4. terror takes hold on them, and quaking of conscience: 5. when the Powers of the world, Princes, States, Parliaments, see the convincing glory of another world in the Church, they part with child for pain. It is known, some have such antipathy with a Rose, which is a pleasant creature of God, that the smell of it hath made them fall a swooning. Jerusalem is the rebellious City, Ezr. 4.12. therefore men are unwilling it should be built. Lusts in mens minds, either heresies, or any other fleshly affection, is against the building of the house of God.
Answ. 1. Yea but this rod is a rod of love, onely used that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus,