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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Elihu most gravely speaketh, Job 33. 13. Why dost thou strive with him, for he gives not an account of any of his matters? The word [Greek or Hebrew] is to strive and contend in words only, as Mercerus and Pagnin, either in judgement or out of judgement, jurgare. And its strange that any dare chide or scold with the sovereign Lord.
ELihu most gravely speaketh, Job 33. 13. Why dost thou strive with him, for he gives not an account of any of his matters? The word 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 is to strive and contend in words only, as Mercerus and Pagnin, either in judgement or out of judgement, jurgare. And its strange that any dare chide or scold with the soveraign Lord.
But 1. Jacob's striving and wrestling in a holy wilful peremptoriness in praying, the Lord being on Jacob the wrestlers side really to bear him up by his grace, is a lawful striving.
But 1. Jacob's striving and wrestling in a holy willful peremptoriness in praying, the Lord being on Jacob the wrestlers side really to bear him up by his grace, is a lawful striving.
2. There is a difference betwixt a mere temptation and a threatening. The woman of Canaan strives not against Christ's not answering her one word, Matth. 15. what? he is master of his own Answers. When Christ says, I came not but for the lost sheep of the house of Israel, she strives not; he is Master of his own journey from Heaven to Earth; yet that Answer weakens her not in the duty of praying, and worshipping. But when she is reproached as to her interest in Christ, Its not meet to take the children's bread and to give it to dogs, she mildly, yet in the boldness of faith contradicts Christ: suppose Christ out of his own mouth should deny a child of God to be a child of God, there is place for a holy striving and contradicting of him.