A92141:763
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.
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.
4. Collect rather the affirmative […] the negative conclusion. When Christ sets up a husbandry in […] Vineyard, can ye tell who are interdicted heirs, and say, I am a bramble, and a cursed briar, and no plant of righteousness, no vine-tree, therefore he hath no thoughts to make me a part of the soil that the Father of Christ shall labour and purge? Who told you news of Christs thoughts to interdict you from getting good of the Gospel? rather collect the contrary. I found a candle lighted in the land of my nativity, though my father be an Amorite, and my mother a Hittite. Why, but I may be a piece of lost money whom he seeks; if yea, love Christ. Loves logic is, I love Christ, or I desire to love Christ, therefore Christ loves me; and I desire to use the means of salvation, and to go up to Jerusalem to worship the King, and keep the Feast of Tabernacles; therefore I shall be no family or part of the land of Egypt, on which there comes no rain,