A92141:1025
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. 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.
2. When the disposition is smoared with heaviness, there is another counterworking heavenly disposition, Psal. 119. 28.1 My soul melteth for heaviness. Then there hath been some disposition of deadness on, yet behold a disposition to pray counterworking that disposition, Strengthen me according to thy word. v. 81. My soul fainteth for thy salvation. Fainting speaks some weakness, yet there is a disposition to hope, which counter-acts fainting, But I hope in thy word. v. 83. I am become like a bottle in the smoke; which is some disposition to deadness on the spirit; but see the counter-working disposition, but I do not forget thy statutes.