A92141:1360
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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10.1 Fiery zeal hinder influences; burn the Samaritans with fire from heaven, say the Disciples. O Paul (say fiery followers of the Law) would destroy the Law of God, and have Christ and grace all; but received ye the spirit (or his influences) by the Law? ye know not the wild-fire of revenge and the spirit of anger that leads you, saith Christ to the Disciples, even to the mild beloved disciple John, Luke 9. 54. Come (saith Jehu) and see my zeal for the Lord, liar, come see my zeal for Jehu, and for Jehu his new Kingdom; but there were here no influences of the spirit of grace, for 2 Kings 10. 31. Jehu took no heed to walk in the Law of the Lord God of Israel with all his heart; ⟨p. 396⟩for he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam, which made Israel to sin. Therefore Jehu his fire in killing Baal's priests, and Ahab's seed, being from false principles, carnal and self ends, and called by the holy Ghost. Hos. 1. 4. blood-shed and murder to be avenged of God, must come from bastard influences. And when our saviour rights the fire of zeal in John and James, he condemns the Spirit and the influences that made them so brutishly to startle, Luke 9. 55.
10.1 Fiery zeal hinder influences; burn the Samaritans with fire from heaven, say the Disciples. O Paul (say fiery followers of the Law) would destroy the Law of God, and have Christ and grace all; but received ye the spirit (or his influences) by the Law? ye know not the wild-fire of revenge and the spirit of anger that leads you, saith Christ to the Disciples, even to the mild beloved disciple John, Luke 9. 54. Come (saith Jehu) and see my zeal for the Lord, liar, come see my zeal for Jehu, and for Jehu his new Kingdom; but there were here no influences of the spirit of grace, for