A92141:1499
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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4. The action of leading that is ascribed to God, is his only action. Deut. 32. 12. So the Lord alone led Jacob, and there was no strange God with him. Now the eyes, legs, wisdom and will of the guide and leader are the travellers: ⟨p. 135⟩It's true,1 he led them by right hand of Moses, but who then shall lead Moses? for Moses needed a guide as they, Isa. 63. 12. Yea but he was leader in person himself. He led them through the deep as an horse in the wilderness, that they should not ••umble. Now a horse is not led, by giving him power to guide himself, but the leader holds the bridle, and directs the way to the horse. So the Lords Christ's gentle driving of the ewes with lamb, and Christ's carrying the lambs in his bosom, Isa. 40. 11. is an action immediate of Christ and his Spirit. The warmness of life that comes from Christ's own bosom, and from the Spirit spreading warm love abroad in the heart, speaks the personal acting of the Son and Spirit. So drawing, John 6. 44. Cant. 1. 4. speaks the nearness of the Father of Christ, and of Christ in his acting.
4. The action of leading that is ascribed to God, is his only action. Deut. 32. 12. So the Lord alone led Jacob, and there was no strange God with him. Now the eyes, legs, wisedome and will of the guide and leader are the travellers: ⟨p. 135⟩It's true,1 he led them by right hand of Moses, but who then shall lead Moses? for Moses needed a guide as they,