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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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2. To tell the Lord of our fixedness of heart is a sort of in aging of him to perfect his own new building, and to send rain and summer warmness on his own sowing, and to perfect what he hath begun; and its a secret praying that God would make an eke to his own work, that he would give influences of grace, and would be pleased to milk ⟨p. 296⟩out holy actings, willing and doing out of holy dispositions. Psalm 119.1 35. Make me to go in the path of thy precepts, for therein do I delight. If the Lord give freely of grace a disposition to delight in his precepts, he will also give grace to walk in his paths: he that made the plant, creates the tree and the fruit; he who made the vine-tree, makes the Summer-sun to nourish it. v. 159. Consider how I love thy precepts; quicken me, O Lord, according to thy loving kindness. The Lord who gives the life of love, and a warmly disposition of heart to the precepts of God, must also give more quickening to that life: he that brings the sown corn to a blade, brings it to an ear of corn, and to be bread: the saving work of grace is one piece, one building, foundation, walls, and covering; its one growing tree, root, bulk and branch, one complete new man: Doth the Lord of free grace create half a new man, or rear up half a new building? No; grace is grace is grace going on and advancing, till it be reaped grace, and so glory.
2. To tell the Lord of our fixedness of heart is a sort of in aging of him to perfect his own new building, and to send rain and summer warmness on his own sowing, and to perfect what he hath begun; and its a secret praying that God would make an eik to his own work, that he would give influences of grace, and would be pleased to milk ⟨p. 296⟩out holy actings, willing and doing out of holy dispositions. Psalm 119.1