A92141:1122
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 there are divers words expressing this impatient desire, every hour seeming a day, and every day a year to love-sickness, longing for that day the dawning whereof is the eternal celebrating of the solemn marriage betwixt Christ and the Bride the Lambs wife without parting for ever, Rev. 22. 12. Behold I come quickly. 17. And the Spirit and the Bride say, Come. And let him that heareth, say, Come. And v. 20. Surely I ⟨p. 322⟩come quickly, Amen: even so come, Lord Jesus. These five comes speak loves desire upon the Bridegrooms side, and upon the Brides side in love-sickness.
1. How sweet is it when pain it self makes prayers to Christ? and want speaks to riches, death and deadness to him who is the resurrection and the life.
2. Yet sense alone speaking often mistakes and chides, yea, impatient sense, mistaking the wise and holy dispensation of God; for Christs absence is wise, but not unkind and void of love; he does not ever absent himself because he is angry, or hates such from whom he withdraws his influences,1 but to increase hunger and lively desire.
- 1Saith above sense.