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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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Nor 3. Should there have been any new song, nor any such redeemed Musicians, who sing with a loud voice, as Rev. 5. 12. Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power and riches, and wisdom, and strength, and honour, and glory, and blessing: and what an heaven should that be that wants the fairest rose in that garden? it should be only the heaven of God Creator, which though glorious, yet ⟨image 12⟩not so kindly nor so desirable to us, wanting the savour and delicious smell of the man Christ, head of men and Angels.
Nor 3. Should there have been any new song, nor any such redeemed Musitians, who sing with a loud voice, as Rev. 5. 12. Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power and riches, and wisedom, and strength, and honour, and glory, and blessing: and what an heaven should that be that wants the fairest rose in that garden? it should be only the heaven of God Creator, which though glorious, yet ⟨image 12⟩not so kindly nor so desirable to us, wanting the savour and delicious smell of the man Christ, head of men and Angels.
4. Nor can there be more lovely Christians then that great and fair mystical body of the ransomed of the Lord; the lovely company that are before the throne, clothed in white with palms in their hands, in sign of eternal victory; who have come out of great tribulation, and have washen their garments, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb, and with them their glorious head, so that here shall be completed and perfected Christ mystical.
4. Nor can there be more lovely Christians then that great and fair mystical body of the ransomed of the Lord; the lovely company that are before the throne, cloathed in white with palms in their hands, in sign of eternal victory; who have come out of great tribulation, and have washen their garments, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb, and with them their glorious head, so that here shall be compleated and perfected Christ mystical.