A92141:1358
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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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 (2 Cor. 3. 18.) with open face beholding, as in a glass, the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the spirit of the Lord, we are near to the receiving of the aspects of the glorified Redeemer; But such as mind earthly things, whose God is their belly, Phil. 3. 19. can no more receive influences of grace then earth-worms, or the Serpent that eateth the dust; neither can heaven and the life to come have an impression in the gracious influences of God upon a wretched man, who worships clay and hath no heaven but gold; how can influences of God be received in the heart of an Idolater? Heavens glory upon the soul is so transparent, that bread and hunger had no influence upon Moses for forty days, when he was in the mount with God, and then rays and influences of glory could not but be sweetly received on the soul: it's clear in such as stand and live before the throne, who are under the eternally shining summer Sun, and receive eternally influences of glory, Rev. 7. 15. the Lamb leading them, they serve God night and day in his Temple, v. 16. and see his face, Rev. 22. 4. and reign for ever and ever, v. 5. and the Disciples forgot bread and garments, yea and houses for themselves to dwell in (for the three tabernacles were for Christ, and Moses, and Elijah, not to shelter them from frosts and rain, and hail, for they feared not the like injuries to glorified bodies) the Disciples say, It's good for us to be here;
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,