A92141:765
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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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, Zech. 14. 17, 18, 19. Seldom doth the use of means want influences; where the Lord gives any tolerable conscience of ploughing and planting, there he sends down watering and refreshing showers from heaven.
4. Collect rather the affirmative 〈…〉 the negative conclusion. When Christ sets up a husbandry in 〈…〉 Vineyard, can ye tell who are interdited 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 soyl that the Father of Christ shall labour and purge? Who told you newes of Christs thoughts to interdite 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 logick is, I love Christ, or I desire to love Christ, therefore Christ loves me; and I desire to use the meanes of salvation, and to goe 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, Zech. 14. 17, 18, 19. Seldome doth the use of means want influences; where the Lord gives any tolerable conscience of plowing and planting, there he sends down watering and refreshing showres from heaven.