Extracts from the spiritual diary of John Rutty, M.D / [John Rutty].

  • John Rutty
Date:
1840
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Credit: Extracts from the spiritual diary of John Rutty, M.D / [John Rutty]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    It will appear from the following memoirs, that the author possessed uncommon tenderness of con- science, extending not only to every plain deviation from the strict rule of duty, but even to matters of mere human infirmity, and such as would escape, not only censure, but almost notice in many per- sons of approved character: but it was a small thing with him to be justified in man’s Judgment ; for he saw evil in its root, and inward workings in the ground of his nature, where its operations were not the less real before God, because not apparent to others, and therefore he could not rest satisfied with any thing short of a clean heart and a right spirit from the Lord ; and thus must it ever be with the interior Christian, who brings every thing to the test of that pure law of God, before which noth- ing can stand that is not according to truth and righteousness in the inward parts. When the Di- vine Spirit maketh his abode in the soul of man, it maketh him to be of a quick understanding in the fear of the Lord, opens to the view of his mind many hidden things of darkness, which before lay concealed from him, and convinceth him of his most secret sins: hence proceed self-judging, self-con- demnation, and all the holy exercises of a penitent and contrite heart. Some will be ready to make an objection to the religious character of our author, as being in bon- dage to the law, and to fear, and, as such, a stran- ger to that perfect law of liberty, which is the highest excellence of the gospel dispensation. ‘To which be it answered, that he was indeed under the law, but under the law to Christ; he walked in fear, but it was a holy fear of offending, a filial re- verence, and not that slavish fear, which is the parent of a constrained obedience; for as it was his choice and delight to be engaged in his Master’s
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