A92141:1365
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.
13.1 Worldly sorrow counterworketh sound repentance and godly carefulness, holy defences, holy anger against our selves, godly fear, vehement desire, zeal for God, revenge, such by which we are not to be satisfied with our selves, who have committed such wickedness: now all these require influences of the Spirit, 2 Cor. 7 9, 10, 11.
13.1 Wordly sorrow counterworketh sound repentance and godly carefulnesse, holy defences, holy anger against our selves, godly fear, vehement desire, zeal for God, revenge, such by which we are not to be satisfied with our selves, who have committed such wickednesse: now all these require influences of the Spirit, 2 Cor. 7 9, 10, 11.
- 113. Worldly sorrow obstructs influences.13. Worldy sorrow obstructs influences.
2. The Law-Spirit of bondage being hellish fear, Rom. 8. 15. and must be another spirit, then the witnessing spirit, and the influences of the one different from the other: as good wheat, that comes of the ploughing and sowing of the husband-man, and wild corn that comes from no ploughing or husbandry; but such wild oats grow of their own accord in mountains and in the house-tops, Rom. 8. 15, 16, 17.