A92141:1006
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.
The third particular is, that David speaketh this prayer-ways to God: there may be so heavenly a disposition upon the child of God, as he dare lay it before God in point of sincerity, that it is not rotten. David prayer-ways lays before God the fervour of his desire of God, Psalm 42. 1. As the hart panteth after the water-brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God. Psalm 63. 1. My soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee. Psalm 73. 25. Whom have I in heaven but thee? Psalm 119. 103. How sweet are thy words unto my mouth! v. 97. O how love I thy law. Psalm 139. 17. How precious are thy thoughts to me. And the Church saith, Isa. 26. 8. Yea, in the way of thy judgements we have waited for thee, O Lord, the desire of our soul is to thy name. Jer. 15. 16. Thy words were found, and I did eat them, and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of my heart; for I am called by thy name, O Lord God of hosts.
The third particular is, that David speaketh this prayer-ways to God: there may be so heavenly a disposition upon the child of God, as he dare lay it before God in point of sincerity, that it is not rotten. David prayer-ways lays before God the fervor of his desire of God, Psalm 42. 1. As the hart panteth after the water-brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God. Psalm 63. 1. My soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee. Psalm 73. 25. Whom have I in heaven but thee? Psalm 119. 103. How sweet are thy words unto my mouth! v. 97. O how love I thy law.