A92141:1399
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.
Christ puts a strong wall of difference between the hating world and the disciples, v. 24. now they have both seen and hated both me, and my Father, but not so ye, v. 26. when the comforter is come, whom J will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me. v. 27. and ye also shall bear witness, because ye have been with me from the beginning. Here are actings of the spirit in the disciples who love the father, and Christ, that the spirit acteth them to bear witness of him to ⟨p. 412⟩the world upon all hazards,1 even to death and torment. We see what works and actings of the spirit is in the Spouse sick of love for Christ, which are in that song of songs to be seen, comparing, Cant. 2. 5. Cant. 5. 8. with other places of the song: these works of the spirit are seen,
Christ puts a strong wall of difference between the hating world and the disciples, v. 24. now they have both seene and hated both me, and my Father, but not so ye, v. 26. when the comforter is come, whom J will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testifie of me. v. 27. and ye also shall beare witnesse, because ye have been with me from the beginning. Here are actings of the spirit in the disciples who love the father, and Christ, that the spirit acteth them to bear witness of him to ⟨p. 412⟩the world upon all hazards,1 even to death and torment. We see what workes and actings of the spirit is in the Spouse sick of love for Christ, which are in that song of songs to be seen, comparing, Cant. 2. 5. Cant. 5. 8. with other places of the song: these works of the spirit are seen,