A92141:1131
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. Under the sense of wrath, faith eying the nature of God revealed in his word corrects sense. Lam. 3. 8. When I cry and shout he shutteth out my prayers. Ah, no, v. 25. The Lord is good to them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him: that is a harbour in place of a rock. 2. He was unto me as a Bear lying in wait, and as a Lion in secret places. Ah, not so. v. 24. The Lord is my portion, saith my soul, therefore I will hope in him. These are strong and edifying influences of grace under absence.
9. What is thy beloved more then another beloved? This is not the speech of enemies, for they discern her to be the fairest among women, and see heavenly beauty and grace in the Spouse.
2. They are daughters of Jerusalem, professors, that seek the beloved with her, c. 6. v. 1. yet they are less spiritual, and more carnal then the Spouse.
For 1. They perceive her in a passion, and they meet her with a sort of passion, What is your Beloved? whereof is your Christ made of more then ours? either enemies or believers, in so far as they are carnal or apt to mistake a spiritual state; so must the world say of Noah, who was just in his time,