A92141:414
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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3. Meddle not with his part but complain of your part; let his sovereignty alone and confess your own guiltiness; Isa. 64. 6, 8. there is a confession of our sin. But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and withal an acknowledgement of his Sovereignty, we are the clay and thou our potter.
3. Meddle not with his part but complain of your part; let his soveraignty alone and confess your own guiltiness; Isa. 64. 6, 8. there is a confession of our sin. But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and withal an acknowledgment of his Soveraignty, we are the clay and thou our potter.
4. When the Lord withdraws, seek again and again, be sick after him, Cant. 3. 1, 2, 3. Cant. 7. 6, 7, 8. Joh. 20. 1, 2, 3, 13. and know that Christ is never so absent, but there may be also much cause of praising and humble blessing God, if there be love-sickness for him, hunger after him, and a spiritual missing of him, as there is reason to complain of the withdrawing of his influences; For Cant. 3. when Christ is absent, he is not absent; the soul is shined upon when the soul is overclouded,1 for it is noon-day at mid-night; he is absent as to feeling, as to finding, and quiet enjoying. I sought him, but I found him not; and again, I sought, him, but I found him not: but he is strongly present and shining, as to influences of grace. 1. In painful seeking in the bed by night,