A92141:1058
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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2. It says that sense is prouder then faith. Sense complains the breathings of the spirit are not strong,1 the wind is not fair: But faith is not content to look through the key-hole, and see the half of his face, and is humbler: Ah, may I but hear of him, or kiss his feet and weep over them, touch but the skirts or the hem of the garments of Christ, and it is good. Some must be feasted with the King, taken into his house of wine, embraced in his arms, or there is no peace, but fretting: But here faith was commended as great, Matth. 15. who would be well pleased with the crumbs that fall from the table; nay it was humble, and hungry, and yet lively faith, Luke 15. 18, 19. Father; I have sinned, I am no more worthy to be called thy son, make me as one of thy hired servants.
2. It sayes that sense is prouder then faith. Sense complaines the breathings of the spirit are not strong,1 the wind is not fair: But faith is not content to look through the key-hole, and see the half of his face, and is humbler: Ah, may I but hear of him, or kiss his feet and weep over them, touch but the skirts or the hem of the garments of Christ, and it is good. Some must be feasted with the King, taken into his house of wine, embraced in his armes, or there is no peace, but fretting: But here faith was commended as great, Matth. 15. who would be well pleased with the crums that fall from the table; nay it was humble, and hungry, and yet lively faith, Luke 15. 18, 19. Father; I have sinned, I am no more worthy to be called thy son, make me as one of thy hired servants.
- 1Sense is prouder then faith.