A92141:1066
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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There is then some spiritual capacity, without which the daughters of Jerusalem cannot pray,1 and that is, if they find him not, Christ cannot be prayed unto, and if the faith meet not with him as Immanuel. Paul saith well, Rom. 10. 13. How shall they call on him in whom they have not believed?
- 1Except we find Christ, we cannot pray.
2. Can one call on God, or cry to him Abba Father, who never laid hold on him as a Father? Know then that unbelief is an iron door betwixt Christ and many who pray, or rather cry to him: for many pray to an unknown Christ. Could Jacob wrestle with an unsound and far-off God, Hos. 12. 4. He wept, and made supplication to him: he found him in Bethel, and there he spake with us. Can any knock, and neither find the right door, nor 2. know the King and the Lord of the house within? ye never went into the Kings chamber, nor to his house of wine, and how can ye speak to him?
2. Can one call on God, or cry to him Abba Father, who never laid hold on him as a Father? Know then that unbelief is an iron door betwixt Christ and many who pray, or rather cry to him: for many pray to an unknown Christ. Could Jacob wrestle with an unfound and farre-off God, Hos. 12. 4. He wept, and made supplication to him: he found him in Bethel, and there he spake with us. Can any knock, and neither find the right door, nor 2. know the King and the Lord of the house within? ye never went into the Kings chamber, nor to his house of wine, and how can ye speak to him?