A92141:1162
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. Hypocrites, as touching the manner of their doing, do counterwork their own work as touching the substance of the duty commanded: vain-glory, hypocrisy-like poison, and death in the pot pollutes the action as Ink and mire vitiates a cup of wine being mixed therewith; better it is comparative to do something of the bulk of the duty, then wholly to omit it, and do nothing less or more.
3. Hypocrites, as touching the manner of their doing, do counterwork their own work as touching the substance of the duty commanded: vain-glory, hypocrisie-like poison, and death in the pot pollutes the action as Ink and mire vitiates a cup of wine being mixed therewith; better it is comparative to do something of the bulk of the duty, then wholly to omit it, and do nothing less or more.
2. Ass. Both all the good action and every part of it, totae actio & totum actionis falls under the command of God: he who commands us to hear in faith, and read with believing, commands us also to walk and journey to the place of hearing, and commands us to incline our bodily ears to give attention of mind to the word, as we hear a moral oration without wandering of heart, though in these (hear the word of God, consider, hear diligently, incline your ears, lay to your heart what is spoken) God lays the obligation of a divine command on us, to the physical act of walking to the place of liberal hearing, as to the substance of the act, and a tie to far more, even to do the act with all the spiritual circumstances; he who commands his servant to go to such a City forty miles distant, he commands him to go ten miles of these forty miles also, and while the servant is moving ten miles towards the City, he gives obedience in part pro tanto, and in so far to his masters command: hence it must follow, that giving of alms in the substance of the act, is nearer in nature to the giving of alms in a spiritual Gospel-way, then not giving of alms at all, but a closing of both bowels and hand to the starving and famishing of the poor.
2. Ass. Both all the good action and every part of it, totae actio & totum actionis falls under the command of God: he who commands us to hear in faith, and read with believing, commands us also to walk and journey to the place of hearing, and commands us to encline our bodily ears to give attention of mind to the word, as we hear a moral oration without wandring of heart, though in these (hear the word of God, consider, hear diligently, encline your ears, lay to your heart what is spoken) God laies the obligation of a divine command on us, to the physical act of walking to the place of liberal hearing, as to the substance of the act, and a tie to far more, even to do the act with all the spiritual circumstances; he who commands his servant to go to such a City fourty miles distant, he commands him to go ten miles of these fourty miles also, and while the servant is moving ten miles towards the City, he gives obedience in part pro tanto, and in so far to his masters command: hence it must follow, that giving of alms in the substance of the act, is neerer in nature to the giving of alms in a spiritual Gospel-way, then not giving of alms at all, but a closing of both bowels and hand to the starving and famishing of the poor.