A92141:1297
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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4.1 The speaking against the manifest operations of the Spirit of the Lord, by which Christ cast out devils, draws so deep as the sin against the holy Ghost, Matth. 12. and such are deprived of pardon, of faith to lay hold on pardon; and such having done despite to the spirit of grace, must indite war against the Spirit and all his operations; therefore cherish and obey the Spirits actings, be willing to be led by him, close with the counsels and breathings of the Spirit; speak to edification, that which ministers grace to the hearers,2 and that cherishes the sealing of the Spirit, Eph. 4. 29, 30. So singing Psalms and Hymns, and spiritual Songs, with making melody in the heart to the Lord, is a proclaiming that there is some fullness of the Spirit; if the Spirit could speak in the Saints, the two native languages of the Spirit would be praying (for that is the cry of the Spirit, Rom. 8. 15, 23, 26.) and singing praises, Eph. 5. 18, 19, 20. The way to have influences of the Spirit is to pray continually and fervently, and to give thanks always for all things unto God the father in the name of our Lord Jesus, Eph. 5. 20.
4.1 The speaking against the manifest operations of the Spirit of the Lord, by which Christ cast out divels, draws so deep as the sin against the holy Ghost, Matth. 12. and such are deprived of pardon, of faith to lay hold on pardon; and such having done despite to the spirit of grace, must indite war against the Spirit and all his operations; therefore cherish and obey the Spirits actings, be willing to be led by him, close with the counsels and breathings of the Spirit; speak to edification, that which ministers grace to the hearers,