A92141:380
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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4. The redeemed of God are not all one and the same way deserted. 1. Some are extremely at under as Job, who apprehended that God did pursue him as an enemy, Job 13. 20. though Job and every believer be the friend of God, Jam. 2. 23. 2. The Spouses desertions are less, being conveyed with love-sickness;1 Magdalen hath no wakenings of conscience for sin, nor any positive agony or law-challenges, but only love desertion, she says with tears; They have taken away my Lord, and I know not where they have laid him. 3. Some are mere desertions as to the act of sin. God is angry at David, when God withdraws, so as he numbers the people, and commits adultery and murder: and Christ is angry at Peter's pride when he suffers him to deny his Master; but neither David and Peter feels any anger from the Lord in such withdrawings of gracious influences; but its so much the worse, the man is wounded in his sleep, and many months and days after the wounds bleed. O what trembling at holy sovereignty, why deadness to duties should come on David, not on Asa. On David at this time, not at another time: Hence a case may be, Whether absence of the Lord in his influences may be mere and only love sickness for him whom the soul loves, or also absence with conscience of sin?
4. The redeemed of God are not all one and the same way deserted. 1. Some are extremely at under as Job, who apprehended that God did pursue him as an enemy, Job 13. 20. though Job and every believer be the friend of God, Jam. 2. 23. 2. The Spouses desertions are less, being conveyed with love-sickness;1 Magdalen hath no wakenings of conscience for sin, nor any positive agony or law-challenges, but only love desertion, she says with tears; They have taken away my Lord, and I know not where they have laid him. 3. Some are meer desertions as to the act of sin. God is angry at David, when God withdraws, so as he numbers the people, and commits adultery and murther: and Christ is angry at Peter's pride when he suffers him to deny his Master; but neither David and Peter feels any anger from the Lord in such withdrawings of gracious influences; but its so much the worse, the man is wounded in his sleep, and many moneths and days after the wounds bleed. O what trembling at holy soveraignty, why deadness to duties should come on David, not on Asa. On David at this time, not at another time: Hence a case may be, Whether absence of the Lord in his influences may be meer and only love sickness for him whom the soul loves, or also absence with conscience of sin?