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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.
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 ⟨p. 55⟩simple judgements as divided from sin, prove nothing; but how are we to stoop and tremble at holy Sovereignty?
7. Soveraignty determines what is just; righteous Abel dies in bloud, 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 misse 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 hundered thousand; how many graves must be there? Pharaoh and his Princes are drowned in the Sea, Herod killed with worms; then ⟨p. 55⟩simple judgements as divided from sin, prove nothing; but how are we to stoop and tremble at holy Soveraignty?