A92141:1194
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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Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Here it is that the first three or four steps bring not heat upon the man; but to walk a mile brings warmness. To strike the flint oftener then once brings out fire at length; and when there is a kindled and a fixed habit of grace, and gracious dispositions, flamings of heavenly dispositions follow apace: because creation is a mids to the execution of the decree of predestination to life eternal, therefore he who in predestination to life giveth his own to Christ, John 17. 2, 6, 11, 12. v. 6. hath established a new supernatural providence, or a providence of redemption different from that providence of God Creator, which should have been, if Adam had never sinned. Of this providence these Scriptures are to be understood. John 5. 17. My Father worketh hitherto and I work. 1Col. 1. 16. All things were created by him and for him. 17. He is before all things, and in him all things consist. Hence Rev. 3. 14. He is the beginning of the Creation of God. Col. 1. 15. Who is the image of the invisible God, the first born of every creature. Rev. 21. 5. And he that sate upon the throne said, Behold I make all things new. Heb. 1. 3. Upholding all things by the word of his power.
Here it is that the first three or four steps bring not heat upon the man; but to walk a mile brings warmnesse. To strike the flint oftner then once brings out fire at length; and when there is a kindled and a fixed habit of grace, and gracious dispositions, flamings of heavenly dispositions follow apace: because creation is a mids to the execution of the decree of predestination to life eternal, therefore he who in predestination to life giveth his own to Christ, John 17. 2, 6, 11, 12