A92141:1443
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.
3. By bending of the mind to a spiritual object the sweet music in praising of God, the some of anger is removed, and a spiritual disposition to praise, which is nearer ⟨p. 423⟩by nature to spiritual prophetical influences, then the flamings of sinful carnal anger, as aer insitus, the air that is within in the ear fits the organs to receive the sound, and lumen insitum fitteth the eye to receive the species and images of colours, and so to see by the contrary the foaming of anger within hinders the incoming of prophetical influences; as a contrary holds out a contrary. Intus apparens prohibet extraneum. So the Apostles wills us to put away anger if we would pray rightly, 1 Tim. 2. 1, 8. I will therefore that men pray every where lifting up holy hands, [Greek or Hebrew], without wrath and doubting or contending. Anger drowns the soul, and renders it like green wet timber, unfit to receive the flaming and soul-warming influences of the spirit of adoption.
3. By bending of the mind to a spiritual object the sweet musick in praising of God, the some of anger is removed, and a spiritual disposition to praise, which is nearer ⟨p. 423⟩by nature to spiritual prophetical influences, then the flamings of sinful carnal anger, as aer insitus, the air that is within in the ear fits the organs to receive the sound, and lumen insitum fitteth the eye to receive the species and images of colours, and so to see by the contrary the foming of anger within hinders the incoming of prophetical influences; as a contrary holds out a contrary. Intus apparens prohibet extraneum. So the Apostles wills us to put away anger if we would pray rightly, 1 Tim. 2. 1, 8. I will therefore that men pray every where lifting up holy hands, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, without wrath and doubting or contending. Anger drowns the soul, and renders it like green wet timber, unfit to receive the flaming and soulwarming influences of the spirit of adoption.