A92141:926
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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Assert. 2. The use we are to make of our sinful weakness is not to sit still: he loves death who says, I cannot heal my self;1 art and skill must only do it, therefore Isle seek to no Physician; if the Lord will not do it, let me die. The husbandman were mad who would say, my ploughing, sowing, early rising, and late labouring can never make the corn to grow except God give the increase, therefore Isle fold my hands and take the other sleep: and if another say, God only creates the wind, therefore Isle never set my foot in a ship; so is it here, what can the dead and the sick sinner do if the Physician Christ will neither quicken nor cure? his influences of life are above my reach, therefore Isle never make out to Christ, nor ask for the Gospel; if Christ will not heal us we must pine away in our sins; how then shall we live? this is to tempt Christ, and to bring him under a new miraculous way to heal and save the sinner in his dream, without hearing the Gospel; which is, that God should bring bread and clothing to the sleeping mans bed-side. The contrary is Phil. 2. 13. work because he works. Cant. 1. Draw, and we will run; the Spouse saith not, Lord, draw that we may sleep.
Assert. 2. The use we are to make of our sinful weakness is not to sit still: he loves death who says, I cannot heal my self;1 art and skill must only do it, therefore Ile seek to no Physitian; if the Lord will not do it, let me die. The husbandman were mad who would say, my plowing, sowing, early rising, and late labouring can never make the corn to grow except God give the increase, therefore Ile fold my hands and take the other sleep: and if another say, God only creates the wind, therefore Ile never set my foot in a ship; so is it here, what can the dead and the sick sinner do if the Physitian Christ will neither quicken nor cure? his influences of life are above my reach, therefore Ile never make out to Christ, nor ask for the Gospel; if Christ will not heal us we must pine away in our sins; how then shall we live? this is to tempt Christ, and to bring him under a new miraculous way to heal and save the sinner in his dream, without hearing the Gospel; which is, that God should bring bread and cloathing to the sleeping mans bed-side. The contrary is