A92141:212
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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
6. The due timing of the worlds Creation,1 and of all things of time is from admirable Sovereignty, why the world had not being, ten thousand millions of imaginary ages sooner, or so many ages later; and from whence came this, In the beginning God created the Heaven and the Earth, is a depth of Sovereignty; its wonderful, Angels and souls of Men are created eternal, time cannot wast them: the body of man, though a creature drawn out of the same nothing, is not so. There is a Plant that grows a year only, there is a Flower that smiles a month, another three months, some Roses are green in March, some in May, some in June only, and there is a Tree that grows an hundred years; The like disparity there is of the life of Beasts and Birds; He hath appointed a time for every purpose under Heaven, a time to be born, a time to die; and accordingly are there several outgoings and influences of the Lord.
6. The due timing of the worlds Creation,1 and of all things of time is from admirable Soveraignty, why the world had not being, ten thousand millions of imaginary ages sooner, or so many ages later; and from whence came this, In the beginning God created the Heaven and the Earth, is a depth of Soveraignty; its wonderful, Angels and souls of Men are created eternal, time cannot wast them: the body of man, though a creature drawn out of the same nothing, is not so. There is a Plant that grows a year only, there is a Flower that smiles a moneth, another three moneths, some Roses are green in March, some in May, some in June only, and there is a Tree that grows an hundred years; The like disparity there is of the life of Beasts and Birds; He hath appointed a time for every purpose under Heaven, a time to be born, a time to die; and accordingly are there several outgoings and influences of the Lord.
- 1The due timing of things is from Sovereignty.The due timeing of things is from Soveraignty.