A92141:144
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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
Q. Whether or no are we to believe, pray, praise, read, confer only then when the Spirit actually moves us to believe, pray, praise, &c. and not otherwise? 1. Duties are to be done under spiritual withdrawings. 2. The precept and the influence differ. 3. We are and may pray at fixed hours.
The Question is the same of elicit acts,1 of love, fear, hope, faith, and of imperate acts of praying, hearing, praising; only the difference is, hardly can we set a time to believing; the object sometime wakens us, Psal. 56. 3. What time I am afraid, Isle trust in thee; otherwise that binds ever, which is, Psal. 62. 8. Trust in him at all times. The Lord hath more fixed a time for praying continually, and for praising the Lord always, 1 Thes. 5. Psal. 146. 1.
THe Question is the same of elicite acts,1 of love, fear, hope, faith, and of imperate acts of praying, hearing, praising; only the difference is, hardly can we set a time to believing; the object sometime wakens us, Psal. 56. 3. What time I am afraid, Ile trust in thee; otherwise that binds ever, which is, Psal. 62. 8. Trust in him at all times. The Lord hath more fixed a time for praying continually, and for praising the Lord always, 1 Thes. 5.