A92141:1281
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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
As to the first of these four, the following conclusions may be considered.
1. Concl. Often God reveals himself. 1. To Moses waiting on his herding, Exod. 3. he appears to him in the bush: he reveals Christ to the Disciples while they are mending their nets: the Angels declare to the shepherds the birth of Christ while they attend their flocks, yet is there no necessary connection between the one and the other. But could we in conscience, and in reference to God, while we are yet in the state of unrenewed nature attend our callings, we might lie nearer ⟨p. 369⟩to the Son of righteousness and his influences of grace: a sluggard spiritual may fear spiritual and judicial want of grace.
1. Concl. Often God reveals himself. 1. To Moses waiting on his herding, Exod. 3. he appears to him in the bush: he reveals Christ to the Disciples while they are mending their nets: the Angels declare to the shepheards the birth of Christ while they attend their flocks, yet is there no necessary connexion betweene the one and the other. But could we in conscience, and in reference to God, while we are yet in the state of unrenewed nature attend our callings, we might lie neerer ⟨p. 369⟩to the Son of righteousness and his influences of grace: a sluggard spirituall may fear spiritual and judicial want of grace.
Ass. 2. There is sometime much seeking of Christ,1