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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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5. The wisdom of God so appoints, as means for his end, that black and white should be in the same body, for beauty, the poor and the rich, the full and the hungry to try the charity of the rich and patience of the poor; that some should weep, some sing and rejoice at the laying of the foundation of the second Temple, Ezra 3, 6. Some of these are acts of mercy,1 Jesus cometh by the way and two blind men sit by the way; Matthew, Zacheus are in such places and Christ comes by and saves both the one, and the other.
5. The wisedom of God so appoints, as means for his end, that black and white should be in the same body, for beauty, the poor and the rich, the full and the hungry to try the charity of the rich and patience of the poor; that some should weep, some sing and rejoyce at the laying of the foundation of the second Temple, Ezra 3, 6. Some of these are acts of mercy,1 Jesus cometh by the way and two blind men sit by the way; Matthew, Zacheus are in such places and Christ comes by and saves both the one, and the other.
- 1Sovereignty shines in means and end, things of rare providence and justice, in administration of means of salvation to some, not to others.Soveraignty shines in means and end, things of rare providence and justice, in administration of means of salvation to some, not to others.
7. Some are acts of justice, as the falling of a piece of a millstone by a woman's hand, and Abimelech's near approaching to the Tower, that a woman might kill him, who might, twenty other ways have died, if the Lord did not rule all the going of Ahab to the war.