A92141:1071
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. The groaning of the Spirit of the Lord is in every praying, and therefore let none be beguiled, who are destitute of the Spirit; for no man can say that Jesus is the Lord, but by the holy Ghost, 1 Cor. 12. 3. It's not want of charity, nor unnecessary discouraging of any, to say a thistle ⟨p. 312⟩is a thistle, and not a rose, a thorn is a thorn, and not a vine-tree. Where the spirit of grace joins no influences of saving grace, can you call that speaking to God a work of saving grace? It were good men were not permitted to treasure up pieces of brass and copper, and suffered to dream they have a treasure of gold.
3. The groaning of the Spirit of the Lord is in every praying, and therefore let none be beguiled, who are destitute of the Spirit; for no man can say that Jesus is the Lord, but by the holy Ghost, 1 Cor. 12. 3. It's not want of charity, nor unnecessary discouraging of any, to say a thistle ⟨p. 312⟩is a thistle, and not a rose, a thorn is a thorn, and not a vine-tree. Where the spirit of grace joynes no influences of saving grace, can you call that speaking to God a work of saving grace? It were good men were not permitted to treasure up pieces of brass and copper, and suffered to dream they have a treasure of gold.
4. Sense of deadness in prayer oftener speaks the life of prayer; and a godly sense of blindness is a large measure of seeing, John 9. 41.
4. Sense of deadness in prayer oftner speaks the life of prayer; and a godly sense of blindness is a large measure of seeing,