A92141:1150
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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3. Christ, God-man, is anointed with the oil of gladness above his fellows, Psalm 45. 7. without measure, John 3. 34. The fullness of anointing is upon him, Isa. 61. 1. Luke 4. 18. His name is as a precious ointment poured out, Cant. 1. 3. And the savour of the knowledge of his name in the preached Gospel is sweet, and savours out heaven and life eternal, 2 Cor. 2. 14, 15, 16. and the fullness of grace in him, John 1. 16. out of which we all receive, John 1. 16. makes him more, nor savoury, and natural men wonder at the gracious words that proceed out of his mouth, Luke 4. 22. and enemies see some of the anointing and shining of God in him; never man spake like him, never man did like him, never man lived like him, never man died like him: would we come nearer to Christ by faith and love, we should smell more of Christ. O what a savour hath his birth, his life, his precious ointments, his death, his resurrection? he is all savoury, Cant. 1. 3. Psal. 45. 7, 8. Cant. 5. 13. his lips, like lilies, dropping sweet smelling myrrh. 2 Cor. 2. 15, 16. His word a sweet savour of life; His countenance is as Lebanon, Cant. 5. 15. O what perfume is in his death, the smell of Lebanon is delicious.