A92141:1051
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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The Church did formerly of late confer with Christ, and refused to open to him when he was knocking and showering down influences of grace; now she is glad to confer,
The Church did formerly of late confer with Christ, and refused to open to him when he was knocking and showring down influences of grace; now she is glad to confer,
1. With the smiting watchmen, where she found little of Christ.
2. Next with private Christians in Assemblies. This is a mean of the Lords showering down of influences in the public and domestic, or less public meetings of his Saints; for ordinances of all sorts that are appointed of Christ, they drop down savoury and seasonable dews. The Lord writes in his book the savoury conferences of such as fear the Lords name, Mal. 3. 16. and three things follow.
2. Next with private Christians in Assemblies. This is a mean of the Lords showring down of influences in the publick and domestick, or less publick meetings of his Saints; for ordinances of all sorts that are appointed of Christ, they drop down savoury and seasonable dews. The Lord writes in his book the savoury conferences of such as fear the Lords name, Mal. 3. 16. and three things follow.