A92141:1024
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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Answ. 1If we speak of the renewed ones that are in Christ, when dispositions heavenly seem to be a fire quenched out, and turned to cold ashes, we are to stir up and awake the habit of grace, and act thereby; for the instinct and nature ⟨p. 300⟩of the new man hath in it virtually gracious acts, and we are to improve the habit of grace.
- 1Properties of heavenly dispositions: to act under indispositions.
2. When one disposition is smothered with the downcasting of unbelief; yet is there an half of a contrary spiritual disposition alive, working contrary to unbelief, by reason whereof David chides his own soul, Psal. 42. 5. Why art thou cast down, O my soul, and why art thou disquieted within me? hope thou in God, I shall yet praise him for the help of his countenance. Whether Davids soul pleads against Davids soul by the habit of grace, or by an heavenly disposition, or by both, it says something to this, that all dispositions spiritual are never so removed, but there is a seed of God which may be wakened up.
2. When one disposition is smothered with the downcasting of unbelief; yet is there an half of a contrary spiritual disposition alive, working contrary to unbelief, by reason whereof David chides his own soul, Psal. 42. 5. Why art thou cast down, O my soul, and why art thou disquieted within me? hope thou in God, I shall yet praise him for the help of his countenance. Whether Davids soul pleads against Davids soul by the habit of grace, or by an heavenly disposition, or by both, it sayes something to this, that all dispositions spiritual are never so removed, but there is a seed of God which may be wakened up.