A92141:1112
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. 4. With this holy contradicting of the Lord will, is conjoined an humble submitting to the Lords denying of saving influences, without a sinful counter-working of his holy will now revealed, or without charging folly or unequal dealing upon the Lord. For,
Assert. 4. With this holy contradicting of the Lord will, is conjoyned an humble submitting to the Lords denying of saving influences, without a sinful counter-working of his holy will now revealed, or without charging folly or unequal dealing upon the Lord. For,
1. His own grace is his own grace, and he is free of all debt and obligation to give gracious influences to Angels or men; as also grace to use the measure of grace given, is rather to be sought then a large measure.
2. There is in love-sickness for Christ a weakness of the soul,1 and a fainting for the want of Christ; and this may come from the apprehended curse and anger of God for sin, which is a disease after conversion that the child of God may be sick of. So David, Psal. 6. 1. Lord rebuke me not in thine anger. Psal. 38. 2. Thine arrows stick fast in me, thine hand presseth me sore. 3. There is no soundness in my flesh because of thine anger, neither is there any rest in my bones because of my sin. 4. For mine iniquities are gone over mine head: as a heavy burden they are too heavy for me. ⟨p. 319⟩