A92141:1287
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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Concl. 14. Where common influences are not entertained, they produce loathing of, and stumbling at the word in Capernaum: the day of grace in the Gospel to Capernaum is the year of vengeance; despise not, if ye wonder, O dreadful, yea, wonder, and despise and hate.
- 1Influences not entertained breed loathing of the Gospel.Influences not entertained breed loath•ng of the Gospel.
Concl. 5. The more spiritual the actings of God are, such as are Gospel-influences leading to, 1. illumination and clear light; 2. to astonishment and to wondering; 3. to strong conviction, they must be more spiritual, especially above law-influences, upon Barbarians, and the more direful effects they work: when the excellent element, air or water is made contagious, it is the more pestilentious and corrupt; how do diseases, and pests rage? were the element of water, which is so excellent and useful, turned into blood, how unpleasant would it be to drink of it? Who knows what influences of wrath follow the Pharisees hearing and hating of Christ and the Gospel? the disposition of Children new born were good in hearing, and James his word c. 1. 21. is very useful, that we receive the engrafted word [Greek or Hebrew] in meekness; otherwise ill soil mars the seed, and renders it unprofitable, and the good seed makes the soil worse.
Concl. 5. The more spiritual the actings of God are, such as are Gospel-influences leading to, 1. illumination and clear light; 2. to astonishment and to wondering; 3. to strong conviction, they must be more spiritual, especially above law-influences, upon Barbarians, and the more direful effects they work: when the excellent element, air or water is made contagious, it is the more pestilentious and corrupt; how doe diseases, and pests rage? were the element of water, which is so excellent and useful, turned into blood, how unpleasant would it be to drink of it? Who knows what influences of wrath follow the Pharisees hearing and hating of Christ and the Gospel? the disposition of Children new born were good in hearing, and James his word c. 1. 21. is very useful, that we receive the engrafted word in meeknesse; otherwise ill soyl marrs the seed, and renders it unprofitable, and the good seed makes the soyl worse.