A92141:762
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 the looking on the frame of providence in them, that they are not born in China, not in Turkey, not in America; but in a land of life, in the kingdom of heaven, where the Gospel is preached: Look spiritually, not naturally upon the time and place of your birth; it is either the greatest good, or the greatest ill and misery that ye can meet with.
5. In the looking on the frame of providence in them, that they are not born in China, not in Turky, not in America; but in a land of life, in the kingdome of heaven, where the Gospel is preached: Look spiritually, not naturally upon the time and place of your birth; it is either the greatest good, or the greatest ill and misery that ye can meet with.
2. Consider what is the weight of the guiltiness of […] despised Gospel, that you go to hell through Christs bounds, Emanuel's land, where the word of the kingdom is preached in the very eye of the Redeemer; whereas Heathens are in a manner behind the Redeemers back.
2. Consider what is the weight of the guiltinesse of 〈…〉 despised Gospel, that you goe to hell through Christs bounds, Emanuels land, where the word of the kingdom is preached in the very eye of the Redeemer; whereas Heathens are in a manner behind the Redeemers back.
3. The husbandmans ploughing preacheth bread and corn in the land; the setting up of the shepherd-tents before your door, proclaims Christs shepherd-care to feed you; love Christ, and follow the shepherd.
3. The husbandmans plowing preacheth bread and corn in the land; the setting up of the shepherd-tents before your door, proclames Christs shepherd-care to feed you; love Christ, and follow the shepherd.