A92141:1434
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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As also godly sorrow for sin, 2 Cor. 7. 10, 11, 15. a special work of the Spirit, and princely and kingly gift of his Spirit who was raised from the dead to act this sorrow in us, Acts 5. 31. as also swooning and dying at the absence and withdrawing of Christ the beloved,1 Cant. 5. 6. is a fruit of the Spirit; and to sleep, and eat, and drink, and rejoice when the holy Spirit is sa•ned, and when he withdraws his actings, is a dismal and sad token, though there may some influence of corruption be in sorrowing, because the Spirits actings are suspended as they are our comforts or apples to delight children, and not as duties that we owe for Christs love to us, and conscience ⟨p. 419⟩of his command, which saith Phil. 4. 4. Rejoice always in the Lord, &c. and here we would beware of worldly sorrow that causeth death. Sorrow and heart-breaking because of the breaking of created comforts, as if God were not the souls portion and the Saints all in all, should be eschewed, this sorrow blunts and deadens the soul from drinking in influences of glory as far, Luke 9. v. 32. also Law-sadness, dumpish servile down-casting, because it deadens and kills as the Law doth, must be eschewed: indeed sadness that Evangelically mortifies and deadens to created spiritual comforts, may quicken the believer to a more vigorous delighting in Christ himself, who is more then comfort, Psal. 119. My soul droppeth away for heaviness; and that puts fire in the soul to pray. Strengthen thou me according to thy word. It appears to be spiritual sorrow that breaks out in prayer, Matth. 26. 38, 39.