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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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3. When the disposition of grace is on, a small object brings forth suitable actings; Christ lets out one cast of his eye upon Peter, and he went out and wept bitterly; a small shake of the tree brings down ripe apples, they fall of their own accord: a gentle quiet gale of wind will cause a light swift vessel to make twice as much way as a huge ship: a rent in the garment of a deadly enemy seems a small transgression; but to David it hath a mighty smiting of heart. We are afraid to come under the pull of Christs arm, as if it were pain and death to be loved and translated by Christ, John 5. 40. Isa. 30. 10. Jer. 51. 9. Ezek. 24. 13. Some will not be cured, and are averse from being drawn to come to Christ and be saved; and an hating of means is a virtual hating of the sweet and special alluring attractions of grace; and we value actings of grace at so low a rate, as if we could do all our alone by pure nature.
3. When the disposition of grace is on, a small object brings forth suitable actings; Christ lets out one cast of his eye upon Peter, and he went out and wept bitterly; a small shake of the tree brings down ripe apples, they fall of their own accord: a gentle quiet gale of wind will cause a light swift vessel to make twice as much way as a huge ship: a rent in the garment of a deadly enemy seemes a small transgression; but to David it hath a mighty smiting of heart. We are afraid to come under the pull of Christs arm, as if it were pain and death to be loved and translated by Christ, John 5. 40. Isa. 30. 10. Jer. 51. 9. Ezek. 24. 13. Some will not be cured, and are averse from being drawn to come to Christ and be saved; and an hating of meanes is a virtual hating of the sweet and special alluring attractions of grace; and we value actings of grace at so low a rate, as if we could doe all our alone by pure nature.