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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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The Contents of the third part.
Some influences are from God, some from Satan Part 3. Ch. 1. Pag. 189 Satan keeps correspondence with the heart, p. 191 Its not lawful to dispute with Satan, yet with his instrument we may p. 192 Christ sought neither the temptation nor the tempter, p. 193 ⟨image 5⟩Difference betwixt Satan's instruments, and these of the Lord, p. 194 Christ under a necessity of giving sanctifying influences, ib. Moral and physical influences, 195 Moral influences that are only moral are weak, ib. Ordinary and extraordinary influences 296 Prophetical influences, ib. It is dangerous to resist strong light, and the influences thereof, p. 197 Private and public Church-influences, ib. Strong influences under the Messiah in the New Testament, p. 199 Gospel-influences are strong, p. 200 Some influences are for the habit, some for the actings of grace, some for both p. 201 Influences proper to the head Christ, and influences on the members, p. 202 Mediatory influences are some way due to the broken in heart, and what sort they of right have thereto. A four-fold right to influences is considerable, p. 203 Strong and mighty influences in Christ p. 204 Gospel-providence how far above the Law-providence of Adam p. 205 Mr Gee treats of prayer, Sect. 4. p. 187, 188, 195. p. 207 Influences of Christ fundamental and not fundamental, ib. The comfortable necessity that lies on Christ to confer influences of grace, p. 208 Influences not fundamental, not simply necessary p. 209 Influences of grace for the habit of saving grace, and influences for a gift, p. 210 How we may know when we act, pray, or hear, &c. from a gift, and when we act from a grace, p. 210 Some pray from a mere gift, when they mistakingly imagine they pray from the saving habit of grace, the mistake is habitual in hypocrites, only actual hic & nunc to sound believers, p. 211 Grace sanctifies the gift used in all due and spiritual circumstances, but the gift can never sanctify the grace p. 213 The same word, but not the same influences, act upon all within the visible Church, p. 214