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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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3 As the earth and the things that grow thereon receive the Sun's influences, so doth the heart qualified with the habit of grace lodge heavenly influences, and the well-tuned string of the Harp and Viol closes sweetly with the smiting of the pulse, or hand of the Musician; but the mistuned string stricken on makes discord, and receives no concord of music: the savoury and gracious heart welcomes the breathings of God, when the Spirit can no more act by his influences on a graceless spirit, then a Musician can play harmoniously on a broken Harp, or a mistuned Reed.
3 As the earth and the things that grow thereon receive the Sun's influences, so doth the heart qualified with the habit of grace lodge heavenly influences, and the welltuned string of the Harp and Viol closes sweetly with the smiting of the pulse, or hand of the Musician; but the mistuned string stricken on makes discord, and receives no concord of musick: the savoury and gracious heart welcomes the breathings of God, when the Spirit can no more act by his influences on a gracelesse spirit, then a Musician can play harmoniously on a broken Harp, or a mistuned Reed.
Hence these evils of the heart obstruct the influences of grace.
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 zeal. 11. Uncleanness. 12. Malice and hatred. 13. Worldly sorrow. 14. False joy. 15. Self-love. 16. Wilful ignorance of the Gospel & hatred of Christ. 17. Impatient fretting against Providence. 18. Disordered thoughts and ignorance of God in Christ.
1. Hardness and blindness. 2. Ʋnbelief. 3. Deadnesse. 4. Security. 5. Irreligious prophaneness. and Atheisme. 6. Ʋnconstancy. 7. Deceitfulnesse. 8. Pride. 9. Worldly-mindednesse. 10. Fiery zeal. 11. Ʋncleanenesse. 12. Malice and hatred. 13. Worldly sorrow. 14. False joy. 15. Self-love. 16. Wilfull ignorance of the Gospel & hatred of Christ. 17. Impatient fretting against Providence. 18. Disordered thoughts and ignorance of God in Christ.