A92141:810
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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2. Job, David, and Jeremiah, sadly complaining and challenging God as an enemy, as fiery, and a God burning with ho• displeasure, and as lying waters; and that says, that hardly could they but be under a disposition and fretting impatience.
2. Job, David, and Jeremiah, sadly complaining and challenging God as an enemy, as fiery, and a God burning with ho• displeasure, and as lying waters; and that sayes, that hardly could they but be under a disposition and fretting impatience.
3. Elisha is so jumbled, that the soul is made like muddy water with indignation at Jehoram, that he is in no spiritual disposition or capacity to see the visions of God, 2 Kings 13. 14, 15. and Jonah is distempered at tender mercy in the Lord towards great Nineveh, and old and young in it, a straw, the withering of a gourd: the renewed soul may be hammered and knocked to pieces like a broken crystal glass, while the Lord be pleased to solder the broken pieces of the soul together again.
3. El•sha is so jumbled, that the soul is made like muddy water with indignation at Jehoram, that he is in no spiritual disposition or capacity to see the visions of God, 2 Kings 13. 14, 15. and Jonah is distempered at tender mercy in the Lord towards great Ninive, and old and young in it, a straw, the withering of a gourd: the renewed soul may be hammered and knocked to pieces like a broken crystal glass, while the Lord be pleased to soldar the broken pieces of the soul together again.