A92141:1334
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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
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.
1. Blindness and hardening of the heart,1 and Pharaoh's not setting his heart, Exod. 7. 23. on the miracle of turning the water of the river to blood; so that the fish in the river dyed, and the river stank, hinders influences of obedience, to let the people go, Exod. 8. 1, 2, 3. Matth. 13. 15. Their eyes have they closed, lest at any time they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be converted and I should heal them; as if they were afraid for the saving influences of the saving grace of conversion: so men keep strong forts, and imaginations against God besieging them by the preached Gospel, 2 Cor. 10. 5. 6. and will not have their thoughts led captives to the obedience of Christ. Whereas softness and tenderness in Josiah