A92141:1308
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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How the soul is under plenty of means and dispositions heavenly, and yet under scarcity of influences. 2. Praying and love to the word, according to the will of precept, all along through Psalm 119. 3. Delighting in the word, reading and meditating thereon fetch heavenly influences. 4. Hence 18. obstructions of influences. 1. Hardness and blindness. 2. Unbelief. 3. Deadness. 4. Security. 5. Irreligious profaneness and Atheism. 6. Unconstancy. 7. Deceitfulness. 8. Pride. 9. Worldly-mindedness. 10. Fiery preposterous zeal. 11. Uncleanness. 12. Malice and bitterness. 13. Worldly sorrow. 14. False joy. 15. Self-love. 16. Wilful ignorance of the Gospel, and hatred of Christ. 17. Impatient fretting against providences, the contraries of all which help to fetch heavenly influences. Lastly, the Lords manner of contributing his influences makes us not passive lumps and blocks; the word shows that God lays a holy necessity on our will, so that we are most willing and free agents in spiritual actings. 18. Vain and wanton thoughts obstruct influences.
How the soul is under plenty of means and dispositions heavenly, and yet under scarcity of influences. 2. Praying and love to the word, according to the will of precept, all along through Psalm 119. 3. Delighting in the word, reading and meditating thereon fetch heavenly influences. 4. Hence 18. obstructions of influences. 1. Hardness and blindness. 2. Ʋnbelief. 3. Deadness. 4. Security. 5. Irreligious prophaness and Atheism. 6. Ʋnconstancy. 7. Deceitfulness. 8. Pride. 9. Worldly-mindedness. 10. Fiery preposterous zeal. 11. Ʋncleanness. 12. Malice and bitterness. 13. Worldly sorrow. 14. False joy. 15. Self-love. 16. Wilful ignorance of the Gospel, and hatred of Christ. 17. Impatient fretting against providences, the contraries of all which help to fetch heavenly influences. Lasty, the Lords manner of contributing his influences makes us not passive lumps and blocks; the word shews that God lays a holy necessity on our will, so that we are most willing and free agents in spiritual actings. 18. Vain and wanton thoughts obstruct influences.