A92141:312
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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4. In the point of instruments of doing good; If I had much riches, I would build Churches, Bridges, Hospitals, entertain many Poor, erect Schools and Colleges; Now, have the loins of the poor and naked blessed you for any you have clothed, even according to what you have. God seeks of no man above that he hath, or according to what he hath not: and if you fail in what you have, what can you say for what you have not; the formal cause of the charity, is the pouring or drawing out of the soul to the hungry,1 Isa. 58. 10. in faith, in lending to God, and casting your bread on the waters, Eccles. 11. 1, 2. Prov. 19. 17. Psal. 37. 26. Now a house full of Gold, cannot add a dram-weight to your mercifulness, and your trusting in God: but you are so much the richer that you have a stock in Heaven, then if thou hadst a great venture at Sea, and so much Gold and so many Jewels coming home to you from West-India; nor can plenty of gold give you more grace.
4. In the point of instruments of doing good; If I had much riches, I would build Churches, Bridges, Hospitals, entertain many Poor, erect Schools and Colledges; Now, have the loyns of the poor and naked blessed you for any you have cloathed, even according to what you have. God seeks of no man above that he hath, or according to what he hath not: and if you fail in what you have, what can you say for what you have not; the formal cause of the charity, is the pouring or drawing out of the soul to the hungry,1 Isa. 58. 10. in faith, in lending to God, and casting your bread on the waters, Eccles. 11. 1, 2. Prov. 19. 17.