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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.
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.
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 debter, 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.
2. Job or any answer, Job 38. 8. Who shut up the Sea with doors, as if it had issued out of the womb? Ver. 9. When I made the cloud the garments thereof, and thick darkness a swaddling band for it. Job 26. 7. He stretcheth out the North over the empty place, and hangeth the Earth upon nothing; give a reason of East and West.
2. Job or any answer, Job 38. 8. Who shut up the Sea with doors, as if it had issued out of the womb? Ver. 9. When I made the cloud the garments thereof, and thick darkness a swadling band for it. Job 26. 7. He stretcheth out the North over the empty place, and hangeth the Earth upon nothing; give a reason of East and West.