A92141:1254
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. God gives thee a talent, a new power: hath God given thee eyes, thou hast more power to glorify him, then he that hath none—give account for thy wit; Lord I have contrived businesses and bargains with it, I have jested, quirped, been merry with it; but why wouldst thou not be witty for God, and for the good of thy soul?
3. God gives thee a talent, a new power: hath God given thee eyes, thou hast more power to glorifie him, then he that hath none—give account for thy wit; Lord I have contrived businesses and bargains with it, I have jested, quirped, been merry with it; but why wouldst thou not be witty for God, and for the good of thy soul?
4. The more power thou hast to repent, the more thy will is against it;—the more your righteousness should increase, it goes the more away:1 like the dew, the more the Sun riseth, the more it vanisheth away: like many, the more preaching the farther off.
4. The more power thou hast to repent, the more thy will is against it;—the more your righteousness should encrease, it goes the more away:1 like the dew, the more the Sun riseth, the more it vanisheth away: like many, the more preaching the farther off.
- 1The sinful cannot.
5. Thy cannot is a voluntary cannot. I cannot give to the poor, sayest thou; yea, thou hadst once Lands, and Means, and comings in, but thou hast spent all at the Ale-house.