A92141:1270
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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PART IV.
CHAP. I.
Of the impediments of heavenly influences upon the soul in general, and of their cure. 2. There be much using of means and no influences. 3. Means would be used in much humility. 4. We may mar influences of grace.
Of the impediments of heavenly influences upon the soul in general, and of their cure. 2. There be much using of means and no influences. 3. Means would be used in much humility. 4. We may marre influences of grace.
IT is not to be thought that influences, being acts of omnipotency, can properly be hindered; but by way of promise and judicial threatening, he hath revealed in his word that he will give grace to the humble, and resist the proud, James 4. 6. 1 Pet. 5. 5. and that he will guide and teach the meek and lowly, Psalm 25. 9. he certainly promiseth influence of grace to the meek. Hence