A92141:1196
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. 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 ⟨p. 338⟩because of this King are called to rejoice, as Psal. 96. 11. Let the heaven rejoice, a•d the earth be glad; let the Sea roar, and the fullness thereof. 12. Let the field rejoice, and all that is therein: then shall all the trees of the wood rejoice. Psalm 98. 8. Let the floods clap their hands, let the hills be joyful together. See Isa. 49. 13. Isa. 65. 7. Jer. 31. 11, 12, 13.
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 ⟨p. 338⟩because of this King are called to rejoyce, as Psal. 96. 11. Let the heaven rejoyce, a•d the earth be glad; let the Sea roar, and the fulness thereof. 12. Let the field rejoyce, and all that is therein: then shall all the trees of the wood rejoyce.