A92141:1057
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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Tell him. Why did not you your self tell him, when he knocked, and spake, and said, Open to me my Sister. She might have told him her self,1 when he lovingly knocked, and sweetly and comfortably spoke, open to me, my Sister: now she is glad, wanting his own presence, to send salutation to absent Christ, Ah, I cannot see him my self! but tell him, I charge you, that I am sick of love. What speaks such a dispensation, but 1. Saints be content to sail with an half-wind, or a side-wind, and improve it well. Husbandmen in the midst of a long continued drought, bless the Lord for twelve hours of Summer•rain, that brings a comfortable reviving. A sight of the Lord in the wilderness of Judah, Psal. 63. when David cannot have Sanctuary-presence, is good. A prayer of the prisoner, or a groan, or Psal. 102. 19, 20. tears by the rivers of Babylon, and a praying eye and heart looking out at Daniels window, when all those are banished and exiled captives far from the Temple, are sweet: and we are to make use of these lesser dispensations: though the well be ebb in a drought, yet here the water is sweet. Fret not because it's (as Bernard saith) rara hora, brevis mora. His visits are but half-visits and short, yet they speak whole, rich, and everlasting mercy; little gold may arle a rich mans inheritance. Ah, I have seen showers of influences in plenty, and now ⟨p. 309⟩feeds me with far off and half-bedewings; did ye use them well when ye had them?
Tell him. Why did not you your self tell him, when he knocked, and spake, and said, Open to me my Sister. She might have told him her self,1 when he lovingly knocked, and sweetly and comfortably spoke, open to me, my Sister: now she is glad, wanting his own presence, to send salutation to absent Christ, Ah, I cannot see him my self! but tell him, I charge you, that I am sick of love. What speaks such a dispensation, but 1. Saints be content to sail with an half-wind, or a side-wind, and improve it well. Husbandmen in the midst of a long continued drought, bless the Lord for twelve hours of Summerrain, that brings a comfortable reviving. A sight of the Lord in the wilderness of Judah,