A92141:1336
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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2.1 As the light of faith leads every thought captive to the obedience of Christ, 2 Cor. 10. 5, 6. so doth unbelief dull the heart. The news of Christ risen again are idle tales to the Apostles, Luke 24. 11. Unbelievers are men who cannot be persuaded, [Greek or Hebrew]; the Gospel leaves as little impression on the heart as a ship on the Sea, or an Eagle in the Air, where the light of faith leaves not a spiritual capacity for receiving the impressions of the Spirit of grace, and where unbelief reigns: and since unbelief hath conjoined softness and a fainting at the face of great affliction, so as the heart is moved as the trees of the wood, Isa. 7. 2. there is not a seat in it under such softness to receive influences for the noble and high actings of the courage of faith in withstanding Kings and Princes, Priests, Prophets, and People, in subduing of Kingdoms, and in the believers godly hardening of himself as a wall of brass and a fenced City against all these; yea, against death and the grave, Jer. 1. 18. Cant. 8. 6, 7. Ezech. 3. 8, 9. Rom. 8. 35.
2.1 As the light of faith leads every thought captive to the obedience of Christ, 2 Cor. 10. 5, 6. so doth unbelief dull the heart. The news of Christ risen again are idle tales to the Apostles, Luke 24. 11. Unbelievers are men who cannot be perswaded, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉; the Gospel leaves as little impression on the heart as a ship on the Sea, or an Eagle in the Air, where the light of faith leaves not a spiritual capacity for receiving the impressions of the Spirit of grace, and where unbelief reigns: and since unbelief hath conjoyned softnesse and a fainting at the face of great affliction, so as the heart is moved as the trees of the wood,