A92141:313
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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5. Had I more grace, I would not deny Christ for fear of men, nor sell Christ for money, as did Peter and Judas. Now just so spake the Scribes and Pharisees, Matth. 23. 30. If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the Prophets; and yet they slew the Apostles, and beat the Prophets, and killed the precious heir Christ, Matth. 21. 33, 38, 33. Would ye have washed Christ's feet with tears, and wiped them with the hair of your head? would ye have kissed his feet? would ye have forsaken all, and followed him? your own heart must be dear and precious to you, when you undertake so much in its name; and yet many that so speak in our age, persecute godliness, and hate Christ in his members; ⟨p. 83⟩and many go off that way many miles on the North side, and the South side of the Cross, when the holy Ghost saith, there is not a Bridge over this River, but we must wade and swim through, at the nearest; and the road-way is, that through much tribulation, we must enter into the Kingdom of God, Acts 14. 22.
5. Had I more grace, I would not deny Christ for fear of men, nor sell Christ for money, as did Peter and Judas. Now just so spake the Scribes and Pharisees, Matth. 23. 30. If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the bloud of the Prophets; and yet they slew the Apostles, and beat the Prophets, and killed the precious heir Christ, Matth. 21. 33, 38, 33. Would ye have washed Christ's feet with tears, and wiped them with the hair of your head? would ye have kissed his feet? would ye have forsaken all, and followed him? your own heart must be dear and precious to you, when you undertake so much in its name; and yet many that so speak in our age, persecute godliness, and hate Christ in his members; ⟨p. 83⟩and many go off that way many miles on the North side, and the South side of the Cross, when the holy Ghost saith, there is not a Bridge over this River, but we mnst wade and swim through, at the nearest; and the road-way is, that through much tribulation, we must enter into the Kingdome of God,