A92141:1098
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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Q. 12. Is not languishing pain in love-sickness after Christ an evil to be prayed against?
- 1How we may deprecate languishing pain in love-sickness.
Answ. No question we may pray against swooning and fainting of the life of God, and may pray for the contrary comfort, but with submission to infinite wisdom. Some diseases are so diseases, as some fluxes and some fevers, as they are also medicinal helps of health, and healthy and lively diseases. The Lord, and nature under the Lord, gives excellent medicine: who knows but Hezekiah's running botch, which was otherwise deadly, was a natural help to his fifteen years health and life which followed? Look not on the holy Lord when he is acting as a Physician, as if he were acting as a Judge. Want with good will the sense and comfort that the Lord would have you want in his infinite wisdom.
Answ. No question we may pray against swooning and fainting of the life of God, and may pray for the contrary comfort, but with submission to infinite wisedom. Some diseases are so diseases, as some fluxes and some fevers, as they are also medicinal helps of health, and healthy and lively diseases. The Lord, and nature under the Lord, gives excellent medicine: who knows but Hezekiah's running botch, which was otherwise deadly, was a natural help to his fifteen yeares health and life which followed? Look not on the holy Lord when he is acting as a Physitian, as if he were acting as a Judge. Want with good will the sense and comfort that the Lord would have you want in his infinite wisedome.
Obj. But whatever we pray for, we are to pray for it with submission, and a reserve to holy sovereignty, as well as we are to pray for sense and comfort?