A92141:1349
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.
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.
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 inticed 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 faigned well decked word, as exquisitely dressed as hair, make merchandise of you.
3. The heart may be turned as streams of a river drawn through this part of the land, or this part, Prov. 21. 1. and from nilling to willing, as the Lord thinks fit, according to Gods will of precept, is often the falling of the Church of Ephesus sinfully from their first spiritual love, Revel. 2. 4. and the turning from good to evil.
3. The heart may be turned as streams of a river drawn thorow this part of the land, or this part, Prov. 21. 1