A92141:930
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.
2. Yea, we blow out the candle; and here the cripple and lame man breaks his own legs and arms the second time, and complains of the Physician Christ that he will not heal him against his will: he who adds to his sickness a poison drink, cannot father his death upon the Physician. Ah, we stir not broken legs and arms upon and towards the Physician Christ.
2. Yea, we blow out the candle; and here the criple and lame man breaks his own legs and arms the second time, and complains of the Physitian Christ that he will not heal him against his will: he who adds to his sickness a poyson drink, cannot father his death upon the Physitian. Ah, we stir not broken legs and arms upon and towards the Physitian Christ.
3. The cripple may move and creep toward the Physician. The motion of such as stepped in the pool immediately after the Angel troubled the water, John 5. was not a motion of perfect nature, nor a perfect motion, but yet a means of health it was; Christ rejects not cripple and sickly motions in using means towards himself.
3. The criple may move and creep toward the Physitian. The motion of such as stepped in the pool immediately after the Angel troubled the water, John 5. was not a motion of perfect nature, nor a perfect motion, but yet a means of health it was; Christ rejects not criple and sickly motions in using means towards himself.