A92141:1079
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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
The Spouses withdrawing beloved, v. 6. is her beloved. Christ is a seeking,1 yet, says she, he is my beloved. The interest in Christ is moral, or (in a manner) legal; the Father made him ours by free gift, the withdrawing of influences. 2. The shining and smiling. 3. the suspending of influences needful for the act of feeling is physical and real. The Lords outward dispensations make no change of 1. Covenant-interest, the Covenant is eternal; the Lords absence from his own is not eternal. Nor is there change in relation of interest; no distance of miles, no frowning or hiding of his face makes Christ leave off to be a husband, a head, a ransom-payer, a Father.
The Spouses withdrawing beloved, v. 6. is her beloved. Christ is a seeking,1 yet, sayes she, he is my beloved. The interest in Christ is moral, or (in a manner) legal; the Father made him ours by free gift, the withdrawing of influences. 2. The shining and smiling. 3. the suspending of influences needful for the act of feeling is physical and real. The Lords outward dispensations make no change of 1. Covenant-interest, the Covenant is eternal; the Lords absence from his own is not eternal. Nor is there change in relation of interest; no distance of miles, no frowning or hiding of his face makes Christ leave off to be a husband, a head, a ransom-payer, a Father.
- 1The real withdrawings of Christ make no change of legal interests in Christ.
2. Faith lays hold on right and on propriety. When the heirs possession is suspended, and an out-lawed heir, here is an heir; the use of the breathings and influences is removed; the mill stands and grindeth not, the ground is ploughed; yet the same Lord and heritor of mill and land remains. Hang not your rights, writs, and charters upon ⟨p. 313⟩