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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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We have a loose faith, the head shall care and watch for us, though we sleep; that is, Christ is graciously careful to give influences, whether we sleep or wake, pray or pray not:1 our care can add nothing to his care; if he will fail in his trust, and sleep, and let us perish, let him see to his own glory; two cares, one in the head, and another in the members, are needless: nay, but his love and care, as head, sends down influences of godly fear and trembling to the members, that they may work with him, Jer. 32. 40.
We have a loose faith, the head shall care and watch for us, though we sleep; that is, Christ is graciously careful to give influences, whether we sleep or wake, pray or pray not:1 our care can adde nothing to his care; if he will fail in his trust, and sleep, and let us perish, let him see to his own glory; two cares, one in the head, and another in the members, are needless: nay, but his love and care, as head, sends down influences of godly fear and trembling to the members, that they may work with him, Jer. 32. 40.
- 1Christ cares more for his own body, then the members care for themselves.
2. Our weakness of faith errs in the other extremity. Ah, can my deadness and hardness be ever subdued! If Christ once sighed for the hardness of sinners hearts,1 and wept over the slain of Jerusalem, and counted it meat and drink to bring in the Samaritans to the Gospel, John 4. 34