A92141:1387
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.
Answ. 1. The Lord speaks to believers as to moral agents, the actings of faith is in us both moral, and also physical or real (though moral acting in some sense be real, and not imaginary) as the fowler with sweet songs works in a manner morally, or by way of allurement upon the fancy of the bird, enticing it to the net, and the bird also physically makes use of its wings, God joining his influence; so would we, looking to the command and promise of God, be induced to bring will and affections under the acting and breathing of the spirit, & also physically act our faith in the mean time, relying upon God for the flowings of his spirit.
Answ. 1. The Lord speaks to believers as to moral agents, the actings of faith is in us both moral, and also physical or real (though moral acting in some sense be real, and not imaginary) as the fowler with sweet songs works in a manner morally, or by way of allurement upon the phancy of the bird, enticing it to the net, and the bird also physically makes use of its wings, God joyning his influence; so would we, looking to the command and promise of God, be induced to bring will and affections under the acting and breathing of the spirit, & also physically act our faith in the mean time, relying upon God for the flowings of his spirit.