A92141:1105
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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Assert. 2. It is most lawful to seek influences of grace for duties at all times.
1. The Saints do pray for influences, Psalm 119. 25. Quicken me according to thy word. 27. Make me understand the way of thy precepts. 29. Grant me thy law graciously. 33. Teach me, O Lord, the way of thy statutes. 35. Make me to go in the paths of thy commandments. Cant. 1. 4. Draw me.
1. The Saints doe pray for influences, Psalm 119. 25. Quicken me according to thy word. 27. Make me understand the way of thy precepts. 29. Grant me thy law graciously. 33. Teach me, O Lord, the way of thy statutes. 35. Make me to goe in the paths of thy commandements. Cant. 1. 4. Draw me.
2. We may pray that God would withdraw his influences from sinful actings, Psalm 119. 29. Remove from me the way of lying. Psalm 141. 4. Incline not my heart to any evil thing, to practice wicked works with men that work iniquity. Matth. 6. 13. Lead us not into temptation.