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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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2. The question is alike in all actions, and in spiritual and supernatural actions; as whether the Husbandman may Plough and Sow at fit seasons, or only when the Lord the cause of causes joins his influence; for these and the like are no less impossible without the connatural influences of God, then the acts of praying, believing without the supernatural influences of grace. Now we would think it ridiculous, should the Husbandman never plough but only when he is disposed to plough; suppose he sleep longer in the morning then he should.
2. The question is alike in all actions, and in spiritual and supernatural actions; as whether the Husbandman may Plow and Sow at fit seasons, or only when the Lord the cause of causes joyns his influence; for these and the like are no less impossible without the connatural influences of God, then the acts of praying, believing without the supernatural influences of grace. Now we would think it ridiculous, should the Husbandman never plow but only when he is disposed to plow; suppose he sleep longer in the morning then he should.
3. The actual Influence cannot be a Rule; for we cannot know or feel the actual influence of God, Creator, or of Grace, but only when we are a-working.
3. The actual Influence cannot be a Rule; for we cannot know or feel the actual influence of God, Creator, or of Grace, but only when we are aworking.
4.1 The question of the obligation is one thing, and the question of ability to pray is another; for Magus yet in the Gall of bitterness, is under the obligation of a Commandment, Acts 8. 22