A92141:757
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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5. In another consideration there is an official love of Christ, founded upon the identity of nature which is between Christ and chosen ones, and the man Christ loving his neighbour as himself; and the humanity and natural compassion in Christ is not destroyed, but perfected by his state of glory; he remains a feeling, compassionate high Priest, Heb. 4. 14, 15. Luke 5. 1, 2, 3. And also this puts Christ to stretch his love to the unconverted that are his flesh, and given to him, that he must bestow habits of grace on them, and gather the sheep with his arm, and drive gently those that are with young, and give new influences to fainting ⟨p. 234⟩ones, and refreshing warmness in his bosom to the cold and weak young ones in the flock, Isa. 40. 11. Isa. 42. 1, 2, 3.
5. In another consideration there is an official love of Christ, founded upon the identity of nature which is between Christ and chosen ones, and the man Christ loving his neighbour as himself; and the humanity and natural compassion in Christ is not destroyed, but perfected by his state of glory; he remains a feeling, compassionate high Priest, Heb. 4. 14, 15. Luke 5. 1, 2, 3. And also this puts Christ to stretch his love to the unconverted that are his flesh, and given to him, that he must bestow habits of grace on them, and gather the sheep with his arm, and drive gently those that are with young, and give new influences to fainting ⟨p. 234⟩ones, and refreshing warmnesse in his bosome to the cold and weak young ones in the flock, Isa. 40. 11. Isa. 42. 1, 2, 3