A92141:370
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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9. Some are kept in perfect peace whose minds are staid on the Lord, and being justified by faith have peace with God, Isa. 26. 2. Rom. 5. 1. There are two sorts of dispensations, one fundamental, another not fundamental; the former is the Lord's carrying on his begun work, which is to will and do to the end in his ordinary course; the dispensation which is not fundamental, respects the Lord's way of doing, hic & nunc, in such circumstances, and the degrees of grace given or infused, which do not vary the species, and nature of the work. We read not of Daniel's cursing the day he was born in, as Jeremiah and Job do; nor is there any shadow of it in Joseph; yet nothing hinders but Job and Jeremiah may and did at other times, enjoy sweet presence, and nearness to God.
9. Some are kept in perfect peace whose minds are staid on the Lord, and being justifyed by faith have peace with God, Isa. 26. 2. Rom. 5. 1. There are two sorts of dispensations, one fundamental, another not fundamental; the former is the Lord's carrying on his begun work, which is to will and doe to the end in his ordinary course; the dispensation which is not fundamental, respects the Lord's way of doing, hic & nunc, in such circumstances, and the degrees of grace given or infused, which do not vary the spece, and nature of the work. We read not of Daniel's cursing the day he was born in, as Jeremy and Job doe; nor is there any shaddow of it in Joseph; yet nothing hinders but Job and Jeremy may and did at other times, enjoy sweet presence, and nearness to God.
But 1. We would not take extraordinary feasts to be daily food; nor should we much wonder when a change cometh: but how do we chide, quarrel, complain, because it is not always so? Nor 2. Should we be rough, but compassionate to sick ones: its the Lord's way that all in the house should not be sick at once; but some are sick and some whole to wait on the sick, and all to bear one another's burdens; all the diseases of the house are not the same in kind and degree.