A92141:1085
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.
2. Nor is it safe to sleep, and lie and be secure, when the ⟨p. 314⟩Spirit in his flowings withdraws. It speaks some out-cast, or out-lawry; and the child should not be quiet, when he knows the Father is displeased: nor would Ministers heal them with all Gospel and honey, and lay aside all Law; for what cures help the disease and the first fever, the same are good some way for the second fever and recidivation.
2. Nor is it safe to sleep, and lie and be secure, when the ⟨p. 314⟩Spirit in his flowings withdraws. It speaks some out-cast, or out-lawry; and the child should not be quiet, when he knows the Father is displeased: nor would Ministers heal them with all Gospel and hony, and lay aside all Law; for what cures help the disease and the first fever, the same are good some way for the second fever and recidivation.
I am sick of love.
As Cant. 2. Greek, wounded of love, the Hebrew word imports weakness, Judg. 16. 11. If they bind me with ropes, I shall be weak as another man.