A92141:373
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. 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, Rom. 3. 19. the Jailer can command none but his own prisoners.
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, Rom. 3. 19. the Jaylor can command none but his own prisoners.
4. Some are frequently taken into the house of Wine, ⟨p. 107⟩and to the Kings Chamber. And what changes there be, Cant. 2. cap. 3. c. 4, 5, 9. 1. v. 6. may be seen its clear, and he that runs may read; felt love is not heritage to any. There is a huge difference between Cant. 2. 6. His left hand is under mine head, and his right hand doth embrace me; And that, I sought him, but I found him not, chap. 3. And that is a joyful feast, Cant. 5. 1. I am come unto my garden, my sister, my spouse, I have gathered my myrrh with my spice: eat O friends, drink, yea drink abundantly, O beloved! And that again is a sad song, ver. 6. My beloved had withdrawn himself; I sought him, but I found him not; I called him, but he answered me not.