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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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3. It were good that the Objector were humbled, and did lie at the water side, and complain, oh if his Ship would fetch me over, and his wind would blow: Who shall deliver me? what shall I do? were he loathing his own ways, and highly in love with such ways of godliness, as David and the Saints walked in, it were good; join despairing in self, and feeling of a wretched condition, with some desires of David's grace, that should be liker a laying hold of the skirt of him that is a Jew, saying, we will go with you. But the Objector is full and rich, and self-righteous and whole, and needs not the Physician, and his own civil hell torments him not; A Heaven of work-holiness, and law-righteousness is the lie that is in his right-hand, he feeds upon such ashes.
3. It were good that the Objector were humbled, and did lie at the water side, and complain, oh if his Ship would fetch me over, and his wind would blow: Who shall deliver me? what shall I doe? were he loathing his own ways, and highly in love with such ways of godliness, as David and the Saints walked in, it were good; joyn despairing in self, and feeling of a wretched condition, with some desires of David's grace, that should be liker a laying hold of the skirt of him that is a Jew, saying, we will go with you. But the Objector is full and rich, and self-righteous and whole, and needs not the Physician, and his own civil hell torments him not; A Heaven of work-holiness, and law-righteousness is the lie that is in his right-hand, he feeds upon such ashes.
4. The Objector would be convinced of his backward desires:1 O, if I had grace I would then labour and run. Is it not 1. A contradiction; he loves to be watered with the streams and dewings of Christ, and hates and loathes the fountain. But now have they both seen and hated me and my father, John 15. 24. The world cannot receive the Spirit, John 19. 17. and so must hate the Spirit and all his influences;