A92141:1383
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. The Lord contempereth the actings of the spirit to the subject, being a moral agent, and all our gracious actings run through the channel of a spiritual judgement; as running the race in Christ came from known and well considered joy set before him, 1Heb. 12. 1. Moses chose Saints suffering more then Court-honour, for heaven or the recompense of reward, looked with another face and representation on the understanding then a poor time Court of clay did; the superexcellent knowledge of Jesus Christ is so praised by Paul, as his heavenly understanding looks on it, as his all, yea, his only all, and his all things beside are stated to his mind as loss and dung. So to Abraham's mind a tent that shepherds sleep in is judged good enough, and the world a bottomless lodging, because there stands in the eye of his mind a rightly considered City, that hath a foundation whose maker and builder is God, Heb. 11. 18. And the cause of Christs bearing patiently the cross was his sanctified judgement of injuries, and spitting [Greek or Hebrew], he under-judged, and in his mind under-prised shame and reproach, Heb. 12. 2. as a-very shadow of a shadow and as nothing, and the glory of his Father in a redeemed and ransomed people looked braid and fair, and great on his understanding. Know and consider well, 1. God, an infinite, fair, transcendent God, and the silly poor nothing and kindless nature. 2. Judge rightly of time, and how nothing yesterday and the last year is, and weigh in your understanding vast, high, and braid, and deep, and long eternity, if you have balance with scales that can bear eternity. 3. Understand well obedience, faith the weight of the love of Christ, never quenched with many floods, and sin, hatred of Christ, and the horror thereof. 4. Take a right view of heaven, how it lies in length and breadth, and a right impression of the fire that is never quenched, and the habitual knowledge of the Lords name, wants not influences for trusting in God, Psalm 9. 10. knowledge ⟨p. 407⟩where to find God in Christ, hath actings of the Spirit to live and dwell with him, to hold him,