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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
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.
As 1. He will not have all the four Monarchies flourish at once in there rose and bloom, but one to be greater, another lesser, as all Rivers are not alike, nor can all Conquerors be victors at one time.
2. The Lord lands some children after three months, sucking, laughing, weeping; others live some days in the Womb, and the Womb is their grave; yet often eternity is a recompense for want of time, and that is Gold for Iron and Copper; others sail fourscore and a hundred years, and never find a gracious harbour: We fret, because the wicked live long and prosper; because we forget that Sovereignty hath determined how many hours wicked men shall laugh, how many talents or stone weights of the Earth they shall have; and because the Bride weeps, when shall the night be gone? and the day dawn? and the King come? there is a sort of account rendered of this by John, ⟨p. 52⟩who had been prophesying of all the Vials of wrath to be poured on the Earth, especially under the Anti-Christs reign, Behold he comes quickly, Rev. 1. 7. [Greek or Hebrew].
2. The Lord lands some children after three moneths, sucking, laughing, weeping; others live some days in the Womb, and the Womb is their grave; yet often eternity is a recompence for want of time, and that is Gold for Iron and Copper; others sail fourscore and a hundred years, and never find a gracious harbour: We fret, because the wicked live long and prosper; because we forget that Soveraignty hath determined how many hours wicked men shall laugh, how many talents or stone weights of the Earth they shall have; and because the Bride weeps, when shall the night be gone? and the day dawn? and the King come? there is a sort of account rendred of this by John, ⟨p. 52⟩who had been prophecying of all the Vials of wrath to be poured on the Earth, especially under the Anti-Christs reign, Behold he comes quickly,