A92141:1008
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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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.
A. No doubt the pained man may lay out his boils before the Physician: and confession of sins and of the evil of our ways make way to making of a new creation in us, Psalm 51. 5, 10.
A. No doubt the pained man may lay out his boils before the Physitian: and confession of sins and of the evil of our ways make way to making of a new creation in us, Psalm 51. 5, 10.
Q. To what end should we speak to God of the sincerity of heavenly dispositions and fixedness of heart?
A. 1. Because neither David nor any of the Saints can order their own hearts under heavenly dispositions, therefore the telling of this to God is a seeking help from him to improve these dispositions. Peter cannot make use of the glory of Christs transfiguration which he saw, except grace help (in a manner) glory, and the Lord enable Peter to make the right use of it, as he doth 2 Pet. 1. 16, 17. and not as he doth Mark 9. 5, 6, 7.1 The Spouse banqueting with Christ in his garden, eating honey and the honeycomb, is in greater danger to miscarry, and turn sleepy and carnally secure, as it fell out Cant. 1. 2, 3. then when ⟨p. 295⟩