A92141:846
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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
Who among you will •ear this? who will hearken and hear for the time to come?
Did not our hearts burn? [Greek or Hebrew].
Did not our hearts burn? 〈non-Latin alphabet〉.
The godly reprove their not knowing and not discerning of Christ in his heart flamings of love; godly and spiritual sense challengeth self-dullness, Cant. 5. 6. I opened to my be••ved, but my beloved had withdrawn himself and was gone. This is a sense of Christs withdrawing, with a challenge of her refusing to open:1 Ah! why did I not op•n while he did •ovingly […] knock, and lovingly speak, Open […] my ••ster, my love, &c. sense of Christ with chal•••••d good▪ […] with tears for […] in the woman th•• […] his feet with tears; sense with faith going along […] is commendable: its a spiritual case […] up our rec•nnings, what we have profited spiritually by the heart-•••ing• wrought by Christ; and this is a third difference. The moral and […] man […] so prove his hear, as to call himself to a reckoning; nor […] say, whe near am I to God for my stirring […] reforming religion? its kindly life-heat that makes the man more lively and vigorous.