A92141:1135
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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And 1. Men that find fault with too much zeal, and cry, moderation, look to that; walk [Greek or Hebrew], Eph. 5. 15. strictly, precisely, numbering all your foot-steps; then shall we be called heady, precise, fools. Nay, walk as wise men, not as fools.
And 1. Men that find fault with too much zeal, and cry, moderation, look to that; walk 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, Eph. 5. 15. strictly, precisely, numbring all your foot-steps; then shall we be called heady, precise, fools. Nay, walk as wise men, not as fools.
2. Moderate professors stint themselves, this Isle do, and no more; it shall do my business. Ah, speak of influences of grace, the ebbing and flowing of spirits, the breathings of Christ, the Kings chambers, the house of wine; these are imaginations: preach fundamentals, faith and repentance, what should more? such truths as are beyond fundamentals are not necessary, obliterate them out of the Scripture; that eight souls were saved in the Ark sure it is not fundamental, many are saved who know it not; yet if any say its not necessary necessitate praecepti, he is like a man who pulls off the covering off the house, and saith, what aileth you? I touch not any foundation-stone of the house; I hurt not the building.
2. Moderate professors stint themselves, this Ile do, and no more; it shall do my business. Ah, speak of influences of grace, the ebbing and flowing of spirits, the breathings of Christ, the Kings chambers, the house of wine; these are imaginations: preach fundamentals, faith and repentance, what should more? such truths as are beyond fundamentals are not necessary, obliterate them out of the Scripture; that eight souls were saved in the Ark sure it is not fundamental, many are saved who know it not; yet if any say its not necessary necessitate praecepti, he is like a man who pulls off the covering off the house, and saith, what aileth you? I touch not any foundation-stone of the house; I hurt not the building.