A92141:353
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.
That men would not accept Christ, and so believe for remission before their lives be reformed; and that Reformation of life must go before the belief or knowledge of pardon, though not before justifying faith.
For 1. This is to bid men keep a distance from holy Jesus, and not come at him, or touch him by faith, though the soul be humbly trembling before him; as the woman, Luk. 8. 47, 48. Mark 5. 33, 34. until they be holy and righteous. It is very like to this, come not within sight of the Physician, by faith, until first you be healed and reformed, or come not to buy the fine linen and the righteousness of the Saints, until first you be well clothed with your own inherent righteousness: But who shall heal the sick, and clothe the naked sinner, if it be not Christ? Now Christ not believed in for pardon, is he at so huge a distance ⟨p. 98⟩from a sinner that he cannot heal, if never seen, and never touched by faith?
For 1. This is to bid men keep a distance from holy Jesus, and not come at him, or touch him by faith, though the soul be humbly trembling before him; as the woman, Luk. 8. 47, 48. Mark 5. 33, 34. until they be holy and righteous. It is very like to this, come not within sight of the Physician, by faith, until first you be healed and reformed, or come not to buy the fine linnen and the righteousness of the Saints, until first you be well cloathed with your own inherent righteousnesse: But who shall heal the sick, and cloath the naked sinner, if it be not Christ? Now Christ not believed in for pardon, is he at so huge a distance ⟨p. 98⟩