A92141:1062
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. Dispositions heavenly in the affections, make a huge deal of noise and tumult, as here there is pathetic charging to tell Christ her love-sickness under desertion; and it's good when desires for Christ under absence are strongest: that faith humbly and submissively waiting on in hope, is stronger also when it makes least noise and tumult; ⟨p. 310⟩as the deepest river without rumbling runs quietly down the banks. But
2. Dispositions heavenly in the affections, make a huge deal of noise and tumult, as here there is pathetick charging to tell Christ her love-sickness under desertion; and it's good when desires for Christ under absence are strongest: that faith humbly and submissively waiting on in hope, is stronger also when it makes least noise and tumult; ⟨p. 310⟩as the deepest river without rumbling runs quietly down the banks. But
1. Learn to husband well love-feasts of nearer and sweeter presence; believe for the time to come; pray for the time to come; hear and observe for the time to come; lay up love in store for times of spiritual scarcity: Ah, we waste dispensations of the love of Christ, and swallow them over without humble believing, and godly watching and fear, and waste prodigally feasts of love: we then learn to grow in experimental knowledge, in solidity of believing; sense is wanton, and feeds it self, and we neglect faith and the growth thereof.
2.1 Be submissive when influences are withdrawn; examine whether they have been abused, and if you might not have made five ten, and had a richer stock if you had been spiritually diligent; and if so, mourn for the abuse of these showers; for Paul tells that the Lords working in us to will and to do, which is showering of influences of grace, is the great teaching argument that lays bands on us to will and to do: and the Lords teaching David wisdom in the hidden part,