A92141:1438
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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Many say they hope well, and it's good to hope well, and live upon thoughts that they shall be saved, yet are profane and godless,1 walking after their lusts; this is sinful boldness, and the spirit dwells in none such. There is a boldness of faith in access to God, and in approaching to the throne of grace, Rom. 5. 1, 2, 3, 4. Heb. 4. 16. by which Davids soul makes her boast in the Lord, Psalm 34. 2. It hath these undoubted graces of the spirit, faith, praying, glorying in tribulation, patience, the love of God spread abroad in the heart by the holy Ghost, which is given to us, Rom. 5. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.
- 1Sinful boldness obstructs influences.
5. The fifth Class of impediments come from these two. 1. Despair and anger.
What workings and saving impulsions in the spirit can be in Cain, Saul, and Judas, is not conceivable. Hope ⟨p. 422⟩that makes not ashamed, Rom. 5. as is said, dwells sweetly with the spirit.