A92141:1347
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.
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1. Bewitching of the hearts, and charming the Galatians from the sound doctrine of Justification through faith only Gal. 3. 1. to Justification by works, prove that influences that take yesterday will not take to day, for they were hot in running, and then cold in sitting down, Gal. 5. 7. Deut. 19. 6. while the avenger of blood, his heart is hot. The Galatians were willing to pluck out their eyes of late for Paul, and now their affection to him being soured, they look on him as an enemy, for he telleth them the necessary and lovely truth, Gal. 4. 15, 16.
2. The heart is a thing that may be bowed, 2 Sam. 19. 14. the metaphor is known to the learned, it may be allured and enticed with fair words, 1 Cor. 2. 4. yea, the whole soul may be bought and sold, as Merchants goods, with fair words. 2 Pet. 2. 3. False teachers, through covetousness, shall with feigned well decked word, as exquisitely dressed as hair, make merchandise of you.