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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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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.
It is boldness to weave a web of carnal difficulties against the Lords holy providence; he hated the first sin as he doth all sin, but to say he was weak and impatient about its entrance in the world, blames his omnipotency, to say the watchman of Israel was; as to all care and vigilance of holy providence, sleeping or slumbering, and was thoughtless and drowsy, not valuing whether his noble Sons of creation, Angels and men, should fall, and irrecoverably and eternally be broken, and become fuel for everlasting fire, or stand and be eternally happy, is injurious to infinite wisdom, and the perfection of his holy will, to say that the Lord loved such a guest as sin, must blame his spotless holiness: but if any say,
It is boldness to weave a web of carnal difficulties against the Lords holy providence; he hated the first sin as he doth all sin, but to say he was weak and impatient about its entrance in the world, blames his omnipotency, to say the watchman of Israel was; as to all care and vigilance of holy providence, sleeping or slumbring, and was thoughtless and drowsie, not valuing whether his noble Sons of creation, Angels and men, should fall, and irrecoverably and eternally be broken, and become fewel for everlasting fire, or stand and be eternally happy, is injurious to infinite wisedom, and the perfection of his holy will, to say that the Lord loved such a guest as sin, must blame his spotless holiness: but if any say,