A92141:1362
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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11. Fleshly uncleanness put them of Sodom to mock and persecute Lot a preacher of righteousness, Gen. 19. 9. and their not hearing of Lot prove their influences were not of God. The holy Ghost clears to us that David, 2 Sam. 11. all along was carried by no saving influences, for there we find 1. His idleness. 2. His sluggishness, in sleeping in day light, when the Ark and people of God were in the fields.1 3. His adultery. 4. His sending for Uriah to cover the matter. 5. His causing Uriah to be drunk. 6. His bloody letter to Joab to kill Uriah. 7. His bloodshed. 8. His Atheistical talking the state of the war. 9. Whereas David mourned for the death of Saul and Abner his enemies, and his not looking with godly trembling on works of divine justice in the Army, he passeth this over as a chance of war, in all which the spirit that led him in composing ⟨p. 397⟩heavenly Prayers and Psalms was now far away: What actings of the Spirit can swine and dogs receive from God? 2 Pet. 2. 12. 22. O but a clean hearth-stone, and a chaste, holy and clean house would be kept for the kindlings and flamings of the holy Ghost. See Tit. 2. 3, 4. 1 Thess. 4. 2, 3, 4. 1 Cor. 6. 19, 20. let the holy Ghost, his temple that he dwells in, be neat, pure, undefiled, for influences are the breathings of the Spirit, and the holy Spirit breaths not on brute beasts, and on slaves to the lust of the flesh.
11. Fleshly uncleanness put them of Sodom to mock and persecute Lot a preacher of righteousness, Gen. 19. 9. and their not hearing of Lot prove their influences were not of God. The holy Ghost clears to us that David,