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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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3. Fectless objects fetch influences from hell: as King Herod and all Jerusalem with him are quaking for fear, at the birth of a weeping babe in cradle. Can an infant rise out of his swaddling clothes and cut the Kings throat, Matth. 2. 9. and with fire and sword destroy all Jerusalem? or can a dead corps in the grave rise and slay the soldiers? Mat. 28.
3. Fectless objects fetch influences from hell: as King Herod and all Jerusalem with him are quaking for fear, at the birth of a weeping babe in cradle. Can an infant rise out of his swadling cloaths and cut the Kings throat, Matth. 2. 9. and with fire and sword destroy all Jerusalem? or can a dead corps in the grave rise and slay the souldiers? Mat. 28.
4. For the external calling, many are called, and hear 40, 50, 60, 70. years, and yet no influences of grace fall on them, as if men (ah if it were not so) were the cursed ground and blasted fig-tree: yea contrary to influences, he blasts the roses by withdrawing sap from them, burns the earth, and turns hearts into iron, by forbidding the clouds to rain on them.
4. For the external calling, many are called, and hear 40, 50, 60, 70. yeares, and yet no influences of grace fall on them, as if men (ah if it were not so) were the cursed ground and blasted fig-tree: yea contrary to influences, he blasts the roses by withdrawing sap from them, burnes the earth, and turns hearts into iron, by forbidding the clouds to rain on them.