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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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3. The disposition of felt mercy brings forth praises; Psal. 30. 5. O Lord, thou hast brought up my soul from the grave— v. 3. Hence that, Sing unto the Lord, O ye Saints of his, and give thanks at the remembrance of his holiness.
4. David's joyful disposition to glory in the Lord brings forth his dancing before the Ark with all his might, and his constancy therein to be yet more vile before the Lord, what ever Michol said to the contrary;1 and this is most suitable to the nature of heavenly dispositions: motion comes kindly from the wheels, when they are oiled; the heavenly dispositions oils and anoints the soul, and renders the powers more active, as they anointed wrestlers of old to make them more nimble and active in wrestling.
4. David's joyful disposition to glory in the Lord brings forth his dancing before the Ark with all his might, and his constancy therein to be yet more vile before the Lord, what ever Michol said to the contrary;1 and this is most sutable to the nature of heavenly dispositions: motion comes kindly from the wheels, when they are oyled; the heavenly dispositions oyles and anoints the soul, and renders the powers more active, as they anointed wrestlers of old to make them more nimble and active in wrestling.
- 1Dispositions spiritual are seeds of holy actings.
2. The very intention & appointment of God speaks so much: God hath ordained heavenly dispositions for heavenly actings as he hath appointed the plant to be a tree, the seed to be growing corn & bread; the Lord sends a praying disposition on David, as a seed of praying; & a praising disposition that