A92141:1124
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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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.
And 3. Holy missing of Christ.
2. Careful seeking, Cant. 3. 1, 2, 3, 4. Cant. 5. 6, 7, 8.
And 3. Strong desires of love-sickness are more solid and edifying graces then feeling, sense, and comfort of his presence as we use them; and these are often stronger when Christ is absent then present, and so the influences of the spirit that accompany missing of Christ.