A92141:1508
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.
2.1 Spread out the sails and give them to the wind; resign the heart to the Spirit: obey that, My son, give me thy heart. Give Christ your loves, as Cant. 7. 12. Keep none of your heart or love to your self, but quit fully both to the leading Spirit of Jesus. Your love and your heart, according to the Gospel-dispensation, is not your own, or at your disposing, whatever property natural by law you have over your self;2 for the law buys you not. We are less our own, and more Christs by the Gospel, and more our own by the Law.
2.1 Spread out the sails and give them to the wind; resign the heart to the Spirit: obey that, My son, give me thy heart. Give Christ your loves, as Cant. 7. 12. Keep none of your heart or love to your self, but quit fully both to the leading Spirit of Jesus. Your love and your heart, according to the Gospel-dispensation, is not your own, or at your disposing, whatever property naturall by law you have over your self;2 for the law buyes you not. We are less our own, and more Christs by the Gospel, and more our own by the Law.
- 1The giving of the heart to God.
- 2We are more our own by law, and less our own by the Gospel.We are more our own by law, and lesse our own by the Gospel.