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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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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.
But 1. We would not take extraordinary feasts to be dayly 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 anothers burthens; all the diseases of the house are not the same in kind and degree.
2. Some do all their life dwell in the borders of hell, and never have fair sailing, nor fullness of assurance, until they be upon the shore; such have only Star-light, and are called to pure living by faith, Isa. 50. 10.
2. Some do all their life dwell in the borders of hell, and never have fair sayling, nor fulness of assurance, until they be upon the shoar; such have only Star-light, and are called to pure living by faith, Isa. 50. 10.
3. Some, once in all their life have one only remarkable night of wrestling with God, and prevail, as Jacob did; and some love so their prison that they take a sentence, à non judice, à non habente potestatem: the Law severed from Christ, is no judge at all to believers; the Law speaks to its own that are under the Law,