A92141:1291
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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CHAP. II.
The Lord keeps an order in sending influences. 2. He maketh short work on some. 3. There is a confluence of influences at one time, and in one work. 4. Despising of the Word. 5. Refusing of Ordinances. 6. Persecuting of the Prophets. 7. Resisting of the operations of the spirit, do all obstruct influences. 8. Praying and praising promove influences. 9. Hardening of the heart, 10. Not profiting by means. 11. Remaining in nature. 12. Actings in wrath, rancour, malice, bitterness, and inordinate passion, obstruct influences. 13. Keep the oil of the spirit clean, if ye would have influences. 14. We are to act morally and physically with the spirit. 15. Prayers obstruct not sovereignty's acting.
The Lord keeps an order in sending influences. 2. He maketh short work on some. 3. There is a confluence of influences at one time, and in one work. 4. Despising of the Word. 5. Refusing of Ordinances. 6. Persecuting of the Prophets. 7. Resisting of the operations of the spirit, do all obstruct influences. 8. Praying and praising promove influences. 9. Hardening of the heart, 10. Not profiting by means. 11. Remaining in nature. 12. Actings in wrath, rancor, malice, bitternesse, and inordinate passion, obstruct influences. 13. Keep the oyl of the spirit clean, if ye would have influences. 14. We are to act morally and physically with the spirit. 15. Prayers obstruct not soveraigntys acting.
The Lord's ordinary way of working is here to be observing; the spirit confers not upon Peter's hearers, Acts 2. influences of faith, and of gladly receiving of the word, v. 41. at the first, before he bestow influences to the pricking of the heart for sin, v. 37. nor does the spirit act upon Saul,