A92141:174
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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Thus its possible, for a Saint to love his own fiery hell, and receive the coals of flaming wrath in his arms, for his holy Sovereign and glorious Name, who is pleased so to deal with him, and upon the Consideration that so it seem good to the only wise and sovereign Lord. But oh how unlike are we to a people in the furnace adoring ⟨p. 37⟩the Lord in the outgoings of sovereign Justice! when the Lord smites, some murmur, others swear, lie, whore, oppress, many mock godliness and hate it, all go on to break the marriage-faith of a Land once betrothed to God; and ah! if the watchmen had not been guides to these who highly wronged Jesus Christ.
Thus its possible, for a Saint to love his own fiery hell, and receive the coals of flaming wrath in his arms, for his holy Soveraign and glorious Name, who is pleased so to deal with him, and upon the Consideration that so it seem good to the only wise and soveraign Lord. But oh how unlike are we to a people in the furnace adoring ⟨p. 37⟩the Lord in the outgoings of soveraign Justice! when the Lord smites, some murmure, others swear, lie, whore, oppress, many mock godliness and hate it, all go on to break the marriage-faith of a Land once betrothed to God; and ah! if the watchmen had not been guides to these who highly wronged Jesus Christ.
From the former,1 follows patient silence, and an use of our submission to his Sovereignty who withdraws his influences from us, so as sinning follows thereupon: Hence there is a great abuse of repentance, which is bastard-repentance. We grieve at the fair work of the Lord's holy permissive providence, and are not humbled at our foul sinning, resulting by our own fault, from such a providence. See a Copy of a Law-sorrow (repentance I call it not) in Adam, before any Gospel was heard of,