A92141:1069
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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Answ. Praying must have some spiritual quality in it, since its a work of the Spirit: for speaking of words is not praying. The legion of devils in the possessed man, Mat. 8. spake words, and made a suit to Christ, but they prayed not: Davids enemies cry, even to the Lord, Psal. 18. 41. but pray not.1 The damned in hell speak words to God, but they blaspheme and quarrel with holy justice, but pray not.
Answ. Praying must have some spiritual quality in it, since it•s a work of the Spirit: for speaking of words is not praying. The legion of devils in the possessed man, Mat. 8. spake words, and made a suit to Christ, but they prayed not: Davids enemies cry, even to the Lord, Psal. 18. 41. but pray not.1 The damned in hell speak words to God, but they blaspheme and quarrel with holy justice, but pray not.
- 1How to judge of the nature of praying.
2. The lowest discernible breathing out of a sigh through the holy Ghost, hath as well the nature of prayer, as an eighth part of an ounce of gold partaketh of the nature of gold no less then a mountain of gold.
2. The lowest discernable breathing out of a sigh through the holy Ghost, hath as well the nature of prayer, as an eighth part of an ounce of gold partaketh of the nature of gold no less then a mountain of gold.