A92141:661
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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Answ. Not so; one godly husbandman prayers for rain to his ground, another godly husbandman prays for drought, as more useful for his field, for he hath rain enough. Now is it not good that there is a wise providence ⟨p. 207⟩in Christ, which fits both their prayers, and does the business well? A number of believers are to fail to such a land, they pray for a North-east-wind; another number of believers are to sail to another land, they suit from the Lord a South-west-wind; is it not best that Christ in his new spiritual providence take a course to hear both their prayers, to deny both the winds they suit, and to bring both in his own way to their desired harbours.
Answ. Not so; one godly husbandman prayers for rain to his ground, another godly husbandman prayes for drought, as more useful for his field, for he hath rain enough. Now is it not good that there is a wise providence ⟨p. 207⟩in Christ, which fits both their prayers, and does the business well? A number of believers are to fail to such a land, they pray for a North-east-wind; another number of believers are to sail to another land, they suit from the Lord a South-west-wind; is it not best that Christ in his new spiritual providence take a course to hear both their prayers, to deny both the winds they suit, and to bring both in his own way to their desired harbours.
Object. 2. It were better God should hear the prayers of his people in their straits.
Answ. The Lord neither casteth off his foreknown people nor their prayers, though visible Israel externally called be rejected.