Influences of the life of grace

Name: Influences of the life of grace
Author: Samuel Rutherford

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.

Samuel Rutherford 1600?–1661London: printed by T.C. for Andrew Crook, 1659

[34], 438 p. · 181k words · Wing R2380 · ESTC R207742

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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.

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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.

5. Thy cannot is a voluntary cannot. I cannot give to the poor, saist thou; yea, thou hadst once Lands, and Means, and comings in, but thou hast spent all at the Ale-house.

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6. Thou art contented with thy cannot; thou canst not be ⟨p. 362⟩holy, and thou art contented not to be; thou canst not crucify thy lust, and thou art contented with this cannot; nay, thou wouldst not be able—my people love to have it so, Jer. 5. 31

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