A92141:156
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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Obj. 4. His yoke is easy, and his Commandments are not grievous; but if it be not in our power to pray, when he withdraws,1 his Commandments shall be unpossible and his yoke heavy.
Obj. 4. His yoak is easie, and his Commandments are not grievous; but if it be not in our power to pray, when he withdraws,1 his Commandments shall be unpossible and his yoak heavy.
- 1Grace sweetens duties.
Ans. His command is easy by the grace of God and love of Christ; the Wheels move sweetly, when Grace and Love oils the Soul; and yet it no more hinders that we cannot pray, when he withdraws, then the burning of the Fire, and the rising of the Sun, which are works of Nature most easy and sweet, are possible; when the Lord forbids the Fire to burn, and the Sun to rise, his Gospel commands actu primo, of themselves are sweet, but under withdrawings hard and legal.
Ans. His command is easie by the grace of God and love of Christ; the Wheels move sweetly, when Grace and Love oyls the Soul; and yet it no more hinders that we cannot pray, when he withdraws, then the burning of the Fire, and the rising of the Sun, which are works of Nature most easie and sweet, are possible; when the Lord forbids the Fire to burn, and the Sun to rise, his Gospel commands actu primo, of themselves are sweet, but under withdrawings hard and legal.
Obj. 5. Praying and seeking of God at set and fixed hours were not lawful; For if we cannot pray, but when the Spirit moves us, we cannot say, we shall pray at any hour: for we cannot tie the Spirit's joining to our hours; and again, if we are to pray at any hour we please, we use the habit of grace and supplication, when, and as we will; as a Musician may sing when he will, or not sing.