A92141:1283
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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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.
Ass. 2. There is sometime much seeking of Christ,1 and no finding, Cant. 3. 1, 2. for a time: Magdalen is early up in the morning, and finds for the present, in lieu of Christ, an empty grave, and grave-clothes only; There is much crying to God, and for the time no hearing, Psal. 22. 2. Psal. 69. 1, 2, 3. It's here as in other means, early up, much labouring, no bread, and the runner getteth not the garland.
Ass. 2. There is somtime much seeking of Christ,1 and no finding, Cant. 3. 1, 2. for a time: Magdalen is early up in the morning, and finds for the present, in lieu of Christ, an empty grave, and grave-cloaths only; There is much crying to God, and for the time no hearing, Psal. 22. 2. Psal. 69. 1, 2, 3. It's here as in other means, early up, much labouring, no bread, and the runner getteth not the garland.
- 1There may be much seeking and using of m•ans, and no influences.
The Lord will have 1. free grace to shine above our sweating. 2. He will have us not to sacrifice to the creature, and created diligence, and to painful seeking, and will have us to learn our folly, who place our mercy and will have our Heaven to stand in running and willing and not in his free compassion. Esa runs and hunts, and obtains not the blessing; Jacob stirs less and is blessed: I speak it not to cry down means, but to cry up Christ and free grace. The Lord seems to forbid Jacob to pray, Let me go, for the day dawneth: but he rather encourageth him to pray; but he teacheth that God's hearing and blessing is more then my tears and wrestling.