A92141:1295
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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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.
2.1 Men can refuse to come and partake of Ordinances and to be Baptized, as the Pharisees do Luke 7. 29, 30. and so reject the counsel of God; and refusing to be among the golden Candlesticks, and the Assembly of his Saints, comes near to trampling on the blood of the Covenant, doing despite to the Spirit of grace, Heb. 10. 25, 26, 29. Rejoice to stand within Jerusalem, Psal. 122. for the Church is his vineyard: love a room in his Church, for it lies near to the Sun, and is under the watering and showers of grace. So Christ speaks to the Spirit, Cant. 4. 16. Awake O North-wind, and come thou South, blow upon my garden, that the spices thereof may flow out. So there is a commission given that the Spirit in its efficacy blow upon the plants and flowers that grow there; the Church is also his garden of red wine which he waters every moment, Isa. 27.
2.1 Men can refuse to come and partake of Ordinances and to be Baptized, as the Pharisees do Luke 7. 29, 30. and so reject the counsel of God; and refusing to be among the golden Candlesticks, and the Assembly of his Saints, comes neer to trampling on the blood of the Covenant, doing despite to the Spirit of grace, Heb. 10. 25, 26, 29. Rejoyce to stand within Jerusalem, Psal. 122. for the Church is his vineyard: love a room in his Church, for it lies neer to the Sun, and is under the watering and showres of grace. So Christ speaks to the Spirit, Cant. 4. 16