A92141:1152
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. Every particular professor hath received sweet smelling anointing, 1 John 2. 20, 27. of the Spirit; and they that are after the Spirit savour of the Spirit, Rom. 8. 5.
1. Use. If the savouriness of love-sickness be in any, they shall use means for it; bring the soul under the influences of the sun of righteousness, for the sun-beams draw out sweet savours, and the actings of love-sickness out of the habit of grace; such smell as myrrh and roses, and odoriferous herbs and flowers, and they have within, such comes out; ye cannot draw out sweet smells out of a dead carrion; ⟨p. 327⟩some plague themselves with the Gospel, and the Gospel plagued them: Satan's influences for hating of Christ, loathing of the Gospel, persecuting the godly, are mighty.
1. Ʋse. If the savouriness of love-sickness be in any, they shall use means for it; bring the soul under the influences of the sun of righteousness, for the sun-beams draw out sweet savours, and the actings of love-sickness out of the habit of grace; such smell as myrrhe and roses, and odoriferous herbs and flowers, and they have within, such comes out; ye cannot draw out sweet smells out of a dead carrion; ⟨p. 327⟩some plague themselves with the Gospel, and the Gospel plagued them: Satans influences for hating of Christ, loathing of the Gospel, persecuting the godly, are mighty.
2. To thrust the heart by acts of love upon Christ increases love; to lay him between the breast as a bundle of myrrh all the night, begets more love-sickness for him.