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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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Ans. The predominant may be sickness only for the want of Christ; as in the Spouse, Cant. 2. and in Magdalen, Joh. 20. I say the predominant, because we cannot say, that God withdraws in his outlettings of grace, but there is guiltiness in the Spouse so made sick because of his absence, and with Magdalen's sickness for Christ there appeareth a doting too much on the man Christ, Joh. 20. 13. I know not where they have laid him. Ver. 15. I will take him away. ⟨p. 109⟩Ver. 17. Touch me not. When we are too bent upon Christ as a Comforter, not as Christ, its just with God we be pained and sick with the want of him; and that we seek him and find him not, so spiritual ought we to be under the pain of absence.
2. But its clear in the man Christ, there is paining, with drawing, and forsaking on the Lord's part; Why hast thou forsaken me? and neither sin nor conscience of sin, nor any hazard of love-sickness after God's near embracings, but upon the due account; for Christ could not idolize God as comforting.
2. But its cleer in the man Christ, there is paining, with drawing, and forsaking on the Lord's part; Why hast thou forsaken me? and neither sin nor conscience of sin, nor any hazard of love-sickness after God's near embracings, but upon the due account; for Christ could not idolize God as comforting.
Q. What may we do to wrestle out from under desertions? Ans.1