A92141:1036
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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Sinful dispositions to the love of the world, to vain-glory, empty pleasures, bring forth sinful actings; the thorn-tree brings forth a thorn-tree, and the thistle-seed a thistle; it's clear in Cain, the Pharisees: So gracious dispositions produce acts of love, faith, hope, godly sorrow, works of righteousness and mercy. As wine-grapes grow out of the ⟨p. 303⟩vinetree, and the Lord fits influences of grace for such dispositions: like sowing, like harvest; and here also men gather not figs of thistles: the vessel smells of good or sour wine: Some must foam out their own shame, and all wonder at the gracious words that proceed out of Christs mouth. For dispositions in Christ were strong habits of grace; and the running-over fountain and fullness of the holy Ghost, the savour of the breath of the anointing, and the dispositions that accompany the fullness of the holy Ghost, is a very garden and a heaven: and here there is some truth in that, Cant. 2. 13. The vines with the tender grapes give a good smell. Cant. 5. 8, 9, 10, 11. Psal. 45. 1, 2, 3, 4.
Sinful dispositions to the love of the world, to vain-glory, empty pleasures, bring forth sinful actings; the thorn-tree brings forth a thorn-tree, and the thistle-seed a thistle; it's clear in Cain, the Pharisees: So gracious dispositions produce acts of love, faith, hope, godly sorrow, works of righteousnesse and mercy. As wine-grapes grow out of the ⟨p. 303⟩vinetree, and the Lord fits influences of grace for such dispositions: like sowing, like harvest; and here also men gather not figs of thistles: the vessel smells of good or sour wine: Some must foam out their own shame, and all wonder at the gracious words that proceed out of Christs mouth. For dispositions in Christ were strong habits of grace; and the running-over fountain and fulnesse of the holy Ghost, the savour of the breath of the anointing, and the dispositions that accompany the fulnesse of the holy Ghost, is a very garden and a heaven: and here there is some truth in that,