A92141:363
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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3.1 Some are led through fewer slips and falls, as John the disciple who leaned on Jesus bosom; excepting his fall of Angel-worship, and some other few, he seems not to be so high bended as Peter, who in Satan's place, dissuaded Christ from the working of our Redemption, denied the Lord with cursing, did foully Judaize, Gal. 2.
3.1 Some are led through fewer slips and fals, as John the disciple who leaned on Jesus bosome; excepting his fall of Angel-worship, and some other few, he seems not to be so high bended as Peter, who in Satans place, disswaded Christ from the working of our Redemption, denyed the Lord with cursing, did fouly Judaize, Gal. 2.
- 1John not under the same dispensation with Peter.
4.1 And it were hard to make all the Prophets of Jonah's mould, whose fear to preach to great Nineveh was extreme, and yet his courage of faith, and patience to be cast in the Sea with his own advise and consent, was as great, and his cruel selfishness to desire that all Nineveh old and young, should be destroyed, rather then his prophetical honour should be darkened in the least, shows what a piece of man he ⟨p. 103⟩was, and his justifying his anger against God, for a blast of wind on his head, and the withering of a poor herb, a gourd, do all hold forth that God leads some, in a way of influences beside the rest. O how is our meek Lord troubled, and (to speak so) cumbered to bear all our manners, sinful tempers, and humours.