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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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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.
1.1 Its rise from Christ. Christ is rather a patient for our instruction, then an agent as touching the rise of the temptation; for Matthew saith, [Greek or Hebrew], the tempter came unto him; then Christ fetched neither the tempter, nor the temptation, or dispute.
1.1 Its rise from Christ. Christ is rather a patient for our instruction, then an agent as touching the rise of the temptation; for Matthew saith, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, the tempter came unto him; then Christ fetched neither the tempter, nor the temptation, or dispute.
- 1Christ sought not the tempter nor the temptation, but (in a sort) a patient in being tempted.
2. Satan brought him to the holy city, Matth. 4. 5. [Greek or Hebrew]—[Greek or Hebrew], Satan set him on a pinnacle of the Temple, v. 8. [Greek or Hebrew], The Devil took him unto an exceeding high mountain, and showed him all the kingdoms of the world. Then did not the man Christ go as from himself to the pinnacle of the Temple, nor to the exceeding high mountain to fetch and bring on himself the temptation or the dispute. See Luke 4. 5, 6, 7, 8. Yea Divines think he submitted that his holy body should be so far acted upon by Satan. So Mark 1. 12. the Spirit drives him [Greek or Hebrew], casteth him violently to the desert. Eve entertains a dialogue with Satan. 1. Speaks by way of complaining of God. 2. And doubtingly of the Lords word of threatening,