A92141:601
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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2, We are also with Magdalen and other godly persons so far to be dead to the private comforts of love to Christ and his presence, and waiting about the grave to anoint his body, that we are to wait upon the more public duties of resting in, and of sanctifying of the Sabbath; though otherwise, the rescuing of the life of an ox be mercy above this sacrifice. If we have much of the spirit, we shall patiently submit to the Lord's dispensation of his sovereign withdrawing of influences of comfort, yea and delight in other inferior duties. What though he will not feast me with the apples of the tree of life, and suspend his comforts? what if he withdraw joyful influences of believing, of glorying, and rejoicing in the Lord, and feed the poor sinner with absence and exercise him with sad desertions?
2, We are also with Magdalen and other godly persons so far to be dead to the private comforts of love to Christ and his presence, and waiting about the grave to anoint his body, that we are to wait upon the more publick duties of resting in, and of sanctifying of the Sabbath; though otherwise, the rescuing of the life of an oxe be mercy above this sacrifice. If we have much of the spirit, we shall patiently submit to the Lord's dispensation of his soveraign withdrawing of influences of comfort, yea and delight in other inferior duties. What though he will not feast me with the apples of the tree of life, and suspend his comforts? what if he withdraw joyful influences of believing, of glorying, and rejoycing in the Lord, and feed the poor sinner with absence and exercise him with sad desertions?
3.1 It's a spiritual condition, when Christ casts in feelings, and discernible motions of the spirit, and not only knocks, but Cant. 5. 2, 4. puts in his hand by the hole of the door, if this follow, my bowels were moved for him. And it's a spiritual ⟨p. 184⟩condition when the soul fails, and the spouse falls a swoon at these words, Open to me, my sister, my love, &c.