A92141:1345
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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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. It may be taken away, Hos. 4. 11. stolen away, 2 Sam. 15. 6. and as moveables can be stolen away and hid, though lands legally by fraud may be stolen away,1 yet physically they cannot be hid; so the love and bensil of the heart may and can be stolen away, and when hearts are from under the possession of the right owner, the Lord our God, they are not under his influences, when they are not in his world and Kingdom of grace, but in Satan's power; hearts benighted are from under the influence of the Sun, and therefore cannot receive the rays and beams of the Sun in the night.
1. It may be taken away, Hos. 4. 11. stollen away, 2 Sam. 15. 6. and as moveables can be stollen away and hid, though lands legally by fraud may be stollen away,1 yet physically they cannot be hid; so the love and bensil of the heart may and can be stollen away, and when hearts are from under the possession of the right owner, the Lord our God, they are not under his influences, when they are not in his world and Kingdom of grace, but in Satans power; hearts benighted are from under the influence of the Sun, and therefore cannot receive the rays and beams of the Sun in the night.
- 16. The hearts unconstancy doth much obstruct the influences of God.
2. Except the Lord pursue even renewed hearts, they are not the same to close with influences now as they were the other hour.