A92141:1195
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.
1. As by the first fall all things fell. 2. The first Adam was the public catholic misguiding Tutor, who marred and destroyed all; and the Creation, and the workmanship of heaven and earth was made subject to vanity, because of mans sin, and is now as a woman travelling in birth, crying in pain under corruption and vanity, Rom. 8. 20, 21, 22. So the second Adam coming to the throne, made a new heaven and a new earth; and as a Midwife to the travailing woman, brings forth the birth, the free sons of God, & carries on the work in bringing the man Christ in the world; for the man Christ is not created and brought in the world by God simply as Creator and Law-giver, by the covenant of works, but by God as now acting to redeem the world, and making a new Creation and a new world.
1. As by the first fall all things fell. 2. The first Adam was the publick catholick misguiding Tutor, who marred and destroyed all; and the Creation, and the workmanship of heaven and earth was made subject to vanity, because of mans sin, and is now as a woman travelling in birth, crying in pain under corruption and vanitie, Rom. 8. 20, 21, 22. So the second Adam coming to the throne, made a new heaven and a new earth; and as a Midwife to the travailing woman, brings forth the birth, the free sons of God, & carries on the work in bringing the man Christ in the world; for the man Christ is not created and brought in the world by God simply as Creator and Law-giver, by the covenant of works, but by God as now acting to redeem the world, and making a new Creation and a new world.
3. Hence the blessing of the creature, and of the earth, which was under a curse for mans sin, Gen. 3. 17, 18. is now from Christ, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, Heb. 1. 2. and by reason of Christs reigning and sitting at the helm of the world, and governing all things, all the creatures