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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. Christ under the Lord's withdrawings, in point of comfort and enjoyment of the felt favour of God prayed and was heard, Heb. 5. 7. Matth. 26. 38, 39. Luke 22. 42, 43. therefore by the like he doth hear us in such a case; I ⟨p. 20⟩fetch the Argument a proportion; for Christ in whom Satan finds nothing, is not capable of the withdrawings of God in point of duty. If any say it was Christ's duty always to rejoice in God,
2. Christ under the Lord's withdrawings, in point of comfort and enjoyment of the felt favour of God prayed and was heard, Heb. 5. 7. Matth. 26. 38, 39. Luke 22. 42, 43. therefore by the like he doth hear us in such a case; I ⟨p. 20⟩fetch the Argument a proportion; for Christ in whom Satan finds nothing, is not capable of the withdrawings of God in point of duty. If any say it was Christ's duty always to rejoyce in God,
I answer, It was an affirmative Precept which did not oblige the man Christ actually in every moment of time; and in radice it did, habitu it did, habitually it did oblige him; for that rejoice evermore, obligeth not ever to actual rejoicing, but to a savoury habit of rejoicing; nor did that (pray continually) oblige the man Christ to pray actually and to speak to God, when he was preaching and speaking to men, at one time; nor was actually rejoicing in God physically consistent with actual sorrow in suffering.