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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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well, let Angels and Men Read and Sing the Glory of the Lord, in the flamings of the holy Sovereignty and spotless Justice of God in my torment; and it becomes me consentingly to lay my soul ⟨p. 36⟩as a threshing floor under his eternal smitings, and to judge I owe a spirit to be eternal oil and fire-wood, to eternally revenging wrath. The Children of God know how hardly Faith can command Sense to come up to the obligation of receiving in the bosom, with kissing and adoring the fiery indignation of the Lord. Yet are we to drink with Christ, the Cup of sad absence, and his holy withdrawings. Heman hath come near this, and David and Jonah; all thy waves have gone over me, thy wrath lies hard upon me; and yet hear savoury prayers speaking the rejoicing, and kissing of sovereignty, and prayers coming out of the furnace of Hell, Ps. 88. 1. O Lord God of my salvation, I cry day and night before thee: What? cries of Faith out of the bowels of a Sea of wrath! Jonah 2. 2. Out of the belly of Hell I cried, saith Jonah; and waves of wrath, all the waves, all the waves of thy wrath are gone over me, saith David, Psal. 45. 8. Yet the Lord will command his loving kindness in the day time, and in the night his song shall be with me, and my prayer unto the God of my life. O how sweet are these; tormenting pain and godly patience; pining pain and sweet praises and psalms of Sovereignty; The tormented man sings his own Hell in a Psalm sounding up to Heaven; Psal. 6. Psal. 42. Psal. 38. God smites me, and I love God, Psal. 42. 7. All thy waves and thy billows are gone over me; yet this Sea and all the waves of this Hell cannot quench heavenly love and the fire of thirsting after God, v. 1. As the Hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God. When fiery wrath is in its outgoing, the Lord sends out wrath and Arrows that stick fast in the soul; but David prays to an angry God, he roars and burns in wrath; I pray,