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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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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.
2. The foot should not complain, why made he not me the head? and the least of. Stars, why made he me not the Sun? nor the Earth say out of the lump of poor Nothing out of the which I came, he might have made me the Globe of the Heaven of Heavens, or an Angel, but he would not.
3. Why made not God the first Adam as perfect as the second Adam? a house that can stand alone, is better then an old house that needs a prop. O quarrel not, the Vine tree is a more noble plant then the thorn, and the one must be propped else it grows not. 2. The man Christ needs influences of graces as well, as another man. 3. The Angels and glorified Spirits need the like; Man a house of clay needs a pillar of excellent matter of the gold of free-grace to hold him up in his actings.
3. Why made not God the first Adam as perfect as the second Adam? a house that can stand alone, is better then an old house that needs aprop. O quarrel not, the Vine tree is a more noble plant then the thorn, and the one must be propped else it grows not. 2. The man Christ needs influences of graces as well, as another man. 3. The Angels and glorified Spirits need the like; Man a house of clay needs a pillar of excellent matter of the gold of free-grace to hold him up in his actings.
4. Why made he me not as holy as the man Christ? why was this man born blind? O cease, he who gives not an account of any of his matters, when he made you a man might have made you a snake or a stone; he is debtor, of two eyes, or of half an eye, of the lowest gift or grace imaginable to no man; close with all he does. That is an evil wit that disputes with God; Submission, silent submission to the hardest dispensation makes the child of God victorious; we are above all things in conquering, when we are below all things, in submitting for the Lord.