A92141:1317
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. Grace prayed for according to the will of pleasure kindles fire for an engaged heart to do a duty according to the Lord's holy will in his word. 33. Teach me O Lord the way of thy statutes, and I shall keep it to the end. 34. Give me understanding, and I shall keep thy Law: Yea I shall observe it with my whole heart. That is, Lord lend me grace, and by that grace I shall repay duty; borrowed grace makes the soul a debtor for duties. 32. I will run the way of thy commandments, when thou shalt enlarge my heart.
4. Grace prayed for according to the will of pleasure kindles fire for an ingaged heart to do a duty according to the Lord's holy will in his word. 33. Teach me O Lord the way of thy statutes, and I shall keepe it to the end. 34. Give me understanding, and I shall keepe thy Law: Yea I shall observe it with my whole heart. That is, Lord lend me grace, and by that grace I shall repay duty; borrowed grace makes the soule a debter for duties. 32. I will run the way of thy commandements, when thou shalt enlarge my heart.
5. It's comfortable for strengthening of faith, to lay before the Lord the victory of his grace, and the strength of the temptation, broken by going on a duty. Hence a temptation; 23. Princes did sit and speak against me: but an influence of grace to do the duty broke the temptation. But thy servant did meditate in thy statutes. 69. The proud have forged a lie against me. A strong temptation; but its ⟨p. 382⟩broken: but I shall keep thy precepts with my whole heart. 81. My soul fainteth for thy salvation, but I hope in thy word.
5. It's comfortable for strengthening of faith, to lay before the Lord the victory of his grace, and the strength of the temptation, broken by going on a duty. Hence a temptation; 23. Princes did sit and speake against me: but an influence of grace to do the duty broke the temptation. But thy servant did meditate in thy statutes. 69. The proud have forged a lie against me. A strong temptation; but its ⟨p. 382⟩