A92141:1384
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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We can draw on sinful dispositions, yea, we created these dry clouds that are above our withered hearts,1 by making our inordinate affections Stewards and Caterers to lay in provision for our flesh, Rom. 13. 14. 2. We can ask leave at our flesh to take a little sleep, and excuse it, Prov. 6. 10. Yet a little slumber. 3. Under drowsiness and security we can refuse to open and let Christ in, Cant. 5. 3. and that brings on sad withdrawings of the actings of the Spirit, v. 6. 4. Violence done to sweet dispositions, when they give warning of our debt, may draw to a wronging of the holy Ghost, who is dreadfully jealous if we counter-work the actings and breathings of the spirit, and react against the out-lettings and flowings of the anointing, and of the well within springing up to eternal life; he puts in his hand by the hole of the door, the Spouse is convinced that it is Christ the beloveds voice, and his knock, and his very words, and no other; yet he is not yielded unto, but resisted.
We can draw on sinful dispositions, yea, we created these dry clouds that are above our withered hearts,1 by making our inordinate affections Stewards and Caterers to lay in provision for our flesh, Rom. 13. 14. 2. We can ask leave at our flesh to take a little sleep, and excuse it, Prov. 6. 10. Yet a little flumber. 3. Under drowsiness and security we can refuse to open and let Christ in, Cant. 5. 3. and that brings on sad withdrawings of the actings of the Spirit, v. 6. 4. Violence done to sweet dispositions, when they give warning of our debt, may draw to a wronging of the holy Ghost, who is dreadfully jealous if we counter-work the actings and breathings of the spirit, and react against the out-lettings and flowings of the anointing, and of the well within springing up to eternal life; he puts in his hand by the hole of the door, the Spouse is convinced that it is Christ the beloveds voice, and his knock, and his very words, and no other; yet he is not yielded unto, but resisted.