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Influences of the life of grace
Influences of the life of grace. Or, A practical treatise concerning the way, manner, and means of having and improving of spiritual dispositions, and quickening influences from Christ the resurrection and the life. By Samuel Rutherfurd, Professor of Divinity in the University of St. Andrews in Scotland.Influences of the life of grace. Or, A practical treatise concerning the way, manner, and means of having and improving of spiritual dispositions, and quickning influences from Christ the resurrection and the life. By Samuel Rutherfurd, Professor of Divinity in the Vniversity of St. Andrews in Scotland.
London: printed by T.C. for Andrew Crook, 1659
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4. There is a formal holy violence offered to him, the Angel Christ wrestles with Jacob, which is a sort of fighting and opposing his strength to Jacobs strength, and he opposeth trying and tempting reason to Jacob, Let me go, for its dawning; and Jacob opposeth his violence on the contrary, I will not let thee go until thou bless me. And the Beloved is wrestling to win away, after long absence and much painful seeking, Cant. 3. 1, 2, 3. but the Spouse offers violence on the contrary with all her strength, I held him, and would not let him go, until I brought him to my mothers house, and unto the chambers of her that conceived me.
5. Its sit to meet a thirst of the Lords Spirit in a flowing of feeling with a thirst of faith; when Christ saith to Thomas, John 20. 27. Reach hither thy finger, and behold my hand; and reach hither thy hand and thrust it into my side; this was a great condescension of Christ in bestowing on him a flowing of feeling; and Thomas answers it with a strong act of the application of faith, My Lord, and my God.
6. When strong convictions come upon the spirit we are to yield our hearty assent to him. Matth. 27. 54. the Centurion and the watchers of Christ seeing the earth-quake and other wonders from heaven, say, [Greek or Hebrew] Luke 23. 47. [Greek or Hebrew] true, certainly, undoubtedly this was the Son of God: this was a righteous man: but ah, he calls and we answer not; we love to be wrought on as stones and blocks, and could wish to be carried sleeping to heaven in Christs bosom.