A92141:1357
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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4. Iron is the strongest and hardest of metals, yet being hot in the furnace receiveth any impression or figure, and bones yield to the smiting of the hammer, which it doth not when it's cold and stiff: when the cross hath graciously melted and softened the soul, then it receives influences of grace, and is ready to receive, as Saul, Act. 9. 6. trembling and astonished, said, Lord, what wilt thou have me to do? The proud self arrogant spirit will not receive nor lodge impressions of grace from heaven; be not then high-minded, but fear, otherways there shall be no rain on you, and you shall not be engrafted in Christ.
4. Iron is the strongest and hardest of mettals, yet being hot in the furnace receiveth any impression or figure, and bones yield to the smiting of the hammer, which it doth not when it's cold and stiff: when the cross hath graciously melted and softened the soul, then it receives influences of grace, and is ready to receive, as Saul, Act. 9. 6. trembling and a•tonished, said, Lord, what wilt thou have me to doe? The proud self arrogant spirit will not receive nor lodge impressions of grace from heaven; be not then high-minded, but fear, otherways there shall be no rain on you, and you shall not be ingraffed in Christ.
9. Worldly mindedness and savouring of the things of the flesh keeps the soul both under deadness and distance from God the light of glory,1 and the heart and conversation in heaven brings forth that which hath a strong influence of grace with it, Phil. 3. 20, 21. We look from heaven for our Saviour the Lord Jesus, who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, when the soul is in heaven, and we all (