A92141:1397
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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1.1 The world that hates Christ, John 15. 18, 20. and persecutes him and his servants is the same world which cannot receive the spirit of truth, John 14. 17. if ye hate Christ and the Godly, no influences of grace for you. Ye shall hew all your days, be ye minister, or professor, upon hard timber without the Spirits tools; ye shall pray, preach, profess, hear, sing, praise in the letter, with out the Spirit and his influences; for ye can not receive the Spirit of truth, John 14. 17. and then must you be dry and withered in all your actings: whereas influences, and manifestations are promised to the lovers of Christ. Joh. 14. 21. he that hath my commandments, and keepeth them; he it is that loveth me, and he that loveth me, shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and manifest my self to him.
1.1 The world that hates Christ, John 15. 18, 20. and persecutes him and his servants is the same world which cannot receive the spirit of truth, John 14. 17. if ye hate Christ and the Godly, no influences of grace for you. Ye shal hew all your dayes, be ye minister, or professor, upon hard timber without the Spirits tools; ye shall pray, preach, professe, hear, sing, praise in the letter, with out the Spirit and his influences; for ye can not receive the Spirit of truth, John 14. 17. and then must you be dry and withered in all your actings: whereas influences, and manifestations are promised to the lovers of Christ. Joh. 14. 21. he that hath my commandements, and keepeth them; he it is that loveth me, and he that loveth me, shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and manifest my selfe to him.