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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.
6. Except Sovereignty, what can silence the mind of one who stumbles and doubts, and weeps, because so many Infants are burnt in Sodom with fire, so many in the old World are drowned with waters in the mothers womb and the cradle, the young sucking children of the Amalekites, & of Babylon, who never drew a sword against the people of God, could never bow their knee to the Idol God Pel, nor stretch out their hands to him, perish by the sword, and their heads dashed against stones? O they were guilty of sin original, yea and so were Moses, David, Samuel, Noah, Job, and Daniel when they were in the womb and weeping on the breasts.
6. Except Soveraignty, what can silence the mind of one who stumbles and doubts, and weeps, because so many Infants are burnt in Sodom with fire, so many in the old World are drowned with waters in the mothers womb and the cradle, the young sucking children of the Amalekites, & of Babylon, who never drew a sword against the people of God, could never bow their knee to the Idol God Pel, nor stretch out their hands to him, perish by the sword, and their heads dasht against stones? O they were guilty of sin original, yea and so were Moses, David, Samuel, Noah, Job, and Daniel when they were in the womb and weeping on the breasts.
7. Sovereignty determines what is just; righteous Abel dies in blood, godly Josiah in war, many bloody men smile out their soul in peace; I took Sodom away (saith the Lord, Ezech. 16. 50.) as I saw good; a wall falls upon twenty seven thousand and kills them, 1 Kings 20. the Lord shoots an arrow of the Pestilence at the camp of the Assyrians, and without a miss takes away, in one night, an hundred and fourscore and five thousand chosen men, Isa. 37. 36. 2 Chro. 13, 18. there fell of Israel at once five hundred thousand; how many graves must be there? Pharaoh and his Princes are drowned in the Sea, Herod killed with worms; then