A92141:865
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.
Answ. Such as is the heart, such is the heat; such as is the hearth-stone, such is the fire and the fuel that but as on it
Answ. Such as is the heart, such is the heat; such as is the hearth-stone, such is the fire and the fewel that but as on it
But the differences be these:
1. The heat of the unrenewed man is strong, and cannot be commanded; they hasten as mad men after their idols, who run after other gods, Psalm 16. 4. And Paul says of his heat in persecuting the Saints, Acts 26. 11. I compelled them to blaspheme, [Greek or Hebrew], I was abundantly and exceedingly mad, and phrentick, out of my wit, in burning malice against them: now the mad man can hardly command his madness, yet upon other sinful and mad grounds Paul could have been persuaded on the contrary: as the Pharisees were mad against Christ, yet the fear of the people and of their own ••ns restrained them long from doing violence to him: and in matters which nearly concern God, the hear of •n ••renewed man may be quenched; as a man that counterfeiteth himself to be mad can command his madness, and […] who feigns himself to be sick, can command his sickness; out one who is really possessed with a Devil and mad, and one who is really sick of a raging fever cannot command either madness or sickness▪ hypocrisy hath some dominion and empire over its own cursed heat and […]; •ut say mountains on the love of Christ, love breathes and lives under it: devise torments, lent, burning quick […] of […], or in a seeing Caldron to the Marrs of Christ, in ten days out off the ten singers one by one, and so the rest of the members in diver days, or some […] devise hellith […]; the witness, of Jesus […] and bounded hand and foo (as the word […] is made use of) by the commanding […] sweetly […] love of Christ, to die an hundred deaths […] rather […] deny Christ; for such as so love not […] lives to […], are not their own nor hath a believer […] his […]; not can the word, if […] could […] and an rth of the gold of […] of Christ, and the strong inence, thereof. So true is that