A92141:1087
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.
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.
Hence it implies languishing pain,1 through want of the feeling and enjoying of Christs presence, Cant. 2. 5. Cant. 3. 1, 2, 3. Cant. 3. 6, 8.
- 1What love-sickness implies.
2. It implies sickness and weakening of the person, as in Amnons love to his sister Tamar, 2 Sam. 13. 1, 2, 3, 4. It comes from apprehended wrath, and the curse of the Law, Psal. 90. 8. Psal. 32. 3, 4. Psal. 6. 1. Psal. 38. 1, 2, 3, 4, &c.