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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.
Here are sweet grounds for the streams to beg from the ⟨p. 205⟩fountain, the members dry and withering from the living head.
2. It was fit there should be another higher providence about the head, then about the members, and so more admirable and transcendent influences extended toward Christ, then toward any of the sons of men, as that a new star should be created at his birth.
That 2. God should give testimony of him from heaven immediately, This is my beloved Son, &c.
3. That Angels, immediate messengers from heaven, should preach his birth-day and place, Luke 2. should minister to him in his agony in the garden; should watch the corps of this King sleeping in the grave; should witness his ascension;1 and what mighty influences above nature must be in his raising the dead, commanding devils, &c. In his coming down from heaven to be man, in whom all the fullness of the Godhead dwells bodily; and that the holy body should ascend visibly through the air, and through the heavens, cleaving, yielding, and giving way to him; what influences in that the clouds are his chariots, and that the man Christ intercedes at the right hand of God, and sends influences of life all the world over to his members, rules all Empires and Kingdoms, the languishing and fainting believer is comforted? O how suitable is Christs fullness and life to my death and emptiness!