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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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256 Hence considerable differences betwixt motions of the spirit and loose Enthusiasms, ib Literal heat is all upon the letter and forms, not so as the spiritual heat, p. 260 A believer may be under some straitening, p. 3. c. 7. p. 262 A true and a false missing, ib What straitening is and whence it is, p. 263 Diverse sorts of straitnings, ib Rules to be free of straitening, and to get enlargement of spirit, p. 264 Every heaviness is not weakness of faith, p. 265 How far we may undertake obedience upon supposal of grace, ib How dispositions necessarily fetch influences, ib We have not assurance to be delivered from sin hic et nunc, p. 266 Except from heinous sins inconsistent with the state of saving grace, ib How we are to rely on God for influences, ib What enlargement of heart David speaks of Psal. 119. 32 p. 267 We cannot engage in our strength of habitual grace to run in the ways of the Lord, p. 268 Isa. 63. 17. O Lord, why hast thou made us to err, &c. opened, ib. What use we are to make of our inability to run, except God enlarge the heart, cap. 8. p. 270 How men naturally complain of sin original, 271 We do not so much as by strength of nature we may do, and we add to our own lameness, and then we unjustly complain of God, for our sinful impotency, ib. That spirit as the spirit lays no obligation on us, but to move in Scriptural duties, 276 ⟨image 8⟩No violence but from our selves hinders us to believe, ib. God loves using of external means pro tanto, ib. How far we may act to fetch the wind, and to get influences, ib. We are not to judge of our selves by occasional enlargedness, or deadening of the heart for the time, cap. 9. p. 280 Enlargedness of heart, and influences are near of kin, 281 Branches of enlargedness of heart, ib. Influences on the Angels and the glorified ones, 283 Many straitened and dead ones reproved, 284 Prayer begets holy dispositions to pray, and heavenly dispositions to pray, begets prayer and faith, &c. cap. 10. p. 287 Holy acts begets holy acts, and holy dispositions beget holy dispositions, ib. The Lord so frames his precepts and promises as our actings are suitably required to his influences, 288 The differences of the 1. spiritual estate. 2. of the temper. 3. of the condition, 289 What Davids present disposition was, 291 The doubling of words noteth, 1. certainty. 2. addition of assurance. 3. fieriness of affection, ib.