A92141:1469
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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6. Who knows not the celerity and swiftness of the love-visits of Christ, coming leaping over the mountains, and skipping over the hills? When the man is going down to the pit, the influence that a found ransom it accepted for him, makes him revive so that his flesh shall be fresher then a child's, Job 33. 23, 24, 25. and v. 26. He shall pray unto God, and he will be favourable unto him, saith Elihu.
6. Who knows not the celerity and swiftness of the love-visits of Christ, coming leaping over the mountaines, and skipping over the hills? When the man is going down to the pit, the influence that a found ransome it accepted for him, makes him revive so that his flesh shall be fresher then a childs, Job 33. 23, 24, 25. and v. 26. He shall pray unto God, and he will be favourable unto him, saith Elihu.
6. There is a great difference here betwixt Sun-influences and the influences of grace. The apple on the same tree which are nearest to the Suns shining, are most cordial and delicious; they are rawer and sourer, though upon the same stock, that are long in the morning ere the Sun-influences fall on them, and are soon under the afternoon-shadow; but the disciples, shined upon by the influences of the glory of the transfiguration near Christ, ⟨p. 430⟩and Moses, and Elijah, spake they knew not what, and that carnally, Mark 9. 5, 6. And who can think there is heterodox Divinity so near heaven as now the Apostles were? So doth John fall dead at the feet of Christ when he is in the Spirit, Revel. 1. 10, 13, 17. The well is damned at the head of the fountain.