A92141:815
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. There is holy complaining laid in the bosom of an apprehended angry God; and though arrows of God stick in the flesh, Psal. 38. 1, 2, 3, 4. Psal. 119. 25. My soul cleaveth to the dust. 28. My soul droppeth away for heaviness. 83. I am become like a bottle in the smoke, Psal. 42. 1, 2. Psal. 6. 1, 2, 3, ⟨p. 248⟩prays and complains in a holy way to God; Like a crane or a swallow, so did I chatter, I did mourn as a dove; mine eyes fail with looking upward: O Lord I am oppressed, undertake for me.
2. There is holy complaining layed in the bosome of an apprehended angry God; and though arrows of God stick in the flesh, Psal. 38. 1, 2, 3, 4. Psal. 119. 25. My soul cleaveth to the dust. 28. My soul droppeth away for heaviness. 83. I am become like a bottle in the smoke, Psal. 42. 1, 2. Psal. 6. 1, 2, 3, ⟨p. 248⟩prayes and complaines in a holy way to God; Like a crane or a swallow, so did I chatter, I did mourn as a dove; mine eyes fail with looking upward: O Lord I am oppressed, undertake for me.
3. It's half a closing with a sinful disposition, when it pains us less. Paul protests against the fleshes sinful disposition,