A92141:1144
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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6.1 We see not the secret good in some, and their sincerity which is dear to Christ, Luke 21. 3. Luke 7. 44, 45, 46. God hath so ordered, that the infirmities of some of his children are ever visible in the streets.
- 1Spiritual savouriness active and passive.
O fairest among women.
Here the character of this heavenly disposition of love-sickness, which is called savouriness, the Spouse savours of the Spirit, and speaks like one sick of love, and the daughters of Jerusalem smell this savour, and look on her as the fairest among women. There is a savouriness of grace passive, whereby words and behaviour cast a smell whether the children of God will or not; and an active savouriness by which those who have any thing of Christ can smell the savouriness of grace in others.