A92141:1447
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. John the disciple of love, called the beloved disciple, gets the name of divine, and he saw more glory and more of the visions of God then Peter, who is the pretended Vicar of Christ, and Head of the Catholic Church (so do Papists dream of an Head-ship.) For John saw Christ in his glory, Revel. 1. which made him fall dead at his feet. He saw a throne set in heaven, and one sate on the throne, and he that sate, was to look upon, like a Jasper and a Sardine-stone, and there was a rainbow round about the throne, and four and twenty seats round about the throne, ⟨p. 424⟩and four and twenty Elders, who cast down their crowns before him that sate upon the throne, c. 4. and the armies in heaven, in earth, and under the earth praising him. He saw in the visions of God the seven Angels which poured the vials of the wrath of God upon the earth. He saw Babylons fall, the vision of the last Judgment, the Bride the Lambs wife adorned with the glory of God. He saw the new Jerusalem, the golden structure of it, the street of gold, the twelve ports, the wall, the foundation of precious stones, the river of water of life, the tree of life. Moses never saw such glory.
3. John the disciple of love, called the beloved disciple, gets the name of divine, and he saw more glory and more of the visions of God then Peter, who is the pretended Vicar of Christ, and Head of the Catholick Church (so doe Papists dream of an Head-ship.) For John saw Christ in his glory, Revel. 1. which made him fall dead at his feet. He saw a throne set in heaven, and one sate on the throne, and he that sate, was to look upon, like a Jasper and a Sardine-stone, and there was a rainbow round about the throne, and four and twenty seats round about the throne, ⟨p. 424⟩and four and twenty Elders, who cast down their crowns before him that sate upon the throne, c. 4. and the armies in heaven, in earth, and under the earth praising him. He saw in the visions of God the seven Angels which poured the vials of the wrath of God upon the earth. He saw Babylons fall, the vision of the last Judgment, the Bride the Lambs wife adorned with the glory of God. He saw the new Jerusalem, the golden structure of it, the street of gold, the twelve ports, the wall, the foundation of precious stones, the river of water of life, the tree of life. Moses never saw such glory.