A92141:1298
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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5.1 A wicked hardening of the heart, is as if ye would cast water on a weakly smoking fire of green timber, that cannot be a seat, an office-house to the Spirit and his actings, such are interdicted of the spiritual seeing, and of the Spirits hearing of the Spirit. Rom. 11. 8. God hath given them the spirit of slumber; eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear to this day. It's dreadful when Prophets preach some stark blind and dead: one of the chief and noble operations of the Spirit, is illumination, ⟨p. 375⟩and he is a seeing, and an enlightening, and a hearing spirit.
5.1 A wicked hardening of the heart, is as if ye would cast water on a weakly smoaking fire of green timber, that cannot be a seat, an office-house to the Spirit and his actings, such are interdited of the spiritual seeing, and of the Spirits hearing of the Spirit. Rom. 11. 8. God hath given them the spirit of slumber; eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear to this day. It's dreadful when Prophets preach some stark blind and dead: one of the chief and noble operations of the Spirit, is illumination, ⟨p. 375⟩and he is a seeing, and an enlightning, and a hearing spirit.
- 1Hardening of the heart obstructs influencesHardning of the heart obstructs influences
1. Wink not before the shining beams of the Sun; yield heartily to the convictions of the Spirit,