A92141:1090
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.
3. It imports the feeling of that pain. The second act of sickness, Matth. 9. 12. as to the pain through want of feeling and enjoying God. 1. Two things are here.
3. It imports the feeling of that pain. The second act of sicknesse, Matth. 9. 12. as to the pain through want of feeling and enjoying God. 1. Two things are here.
1. The want of the life, though the believer be still loved, chosen, redeemed, translated from death to life; but the Lord, who can put a check-lock and an iron bar on all our comforts, withdraws, and lets the Spouse swoon, and stays not the heart with flagons of wine and apples, that is, with the effectual applying of the word of promise, by which the heart is established or strengthened, Jam. 5. 8. Rom. 1. 11. and by which we stay and rest our selves upon the word the Lord, 2 Chron. 32. 6, 7, 8. Acts 14. 21, 22.
1. The want of the life, though the believer be still loved, chosen, redeemed, translated from death to life; but the Lord, who can put a check-lock and an iron bar on all our comforts, withdrawes, and lets the Spouse swoon, and stayes not the heart with flagons of wine and apples, that is, with the effectual applying of the word of promise, by which the heart is established or strengthened, Jam. 5. 8. Rom. 1. 11. and by which we stay and rest our selves upon the word the Lord,