A92141:1056
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. His making known to his the difference betwixt such as serve God, and such as serve him not: and Zech. 8. the inhabitants of one City encourage the inhabitants of another; and the fruits of it is 1.1 Praying. 2. Owning the Saints. And they take hold of the skirt of a Jew; and both say Christians meeting for prayer and conference want not God, who rains down impressions of grace upon them as his people, especially when they warm one another; as many coals in one heap make a great fire. Nor is the acting of the Spirit tied only to the public Ministry; the Saints take to their houses clusters of wine-grapes, which they feed upon at home. Let the Saints meet, and by conference and prayer draw down new influences of the spirit, Jude 20. Isa. 2. 1, 2, 3. Jer. 50. 4, 5. Col. 3. 16. Heb. 3. 13. & 10. 24. 1 Thess. 5. 14.
3. His making known to his the difference betwixt such as serve God, and such as serve him not: and Zech. 8. the inhabitants of one City encourage the inhabitants of another; and the fruits of it is 1.1 Praying. 2. Owning the Saints. And they take hold of the skirt of a Jew; and both say Christians meeting for prayer and conference want not God, who raines down impressions of grace upon them as his people, especially when they warm one another; as many coales in one heap make a great fire. Nor is the acting of the Spirit tied only to the publick Ministery; the Saints take to their houses clusters of wine-grapes, which they feed upon at home. Let the Saints meet, and by conference and prayer draw down new influences of the spirit,