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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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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.
CHAP. X.
1. Sovereignty in actings of grace, 2. We are not to seek influences, but such as are suitable to the Word. 3. Of divers influences. 4. How we complain of want of influences, and how we may suit them. 5. We are to act under indispositions. 6. How we are to pray continually. 7. Not to act duties while we feel breathings of the Spirit is an unsafe Rule. 8. Preparations before Duties. 9. To wait on breathings before we act Duties, how lawful, how not.
1. Soveraignty in actings of grace, 2. We are not to seek influences, but such as are suitable to the Word. 3. Of divers influences. 4. How we complain of want of influences, and how we may suit them. 5. We are to act under indispositions. 6. How we are to pray continualy. 7. Not to act duties while we feel breathings of the Spirit is an unsafe Rule. 8. Preparations before Duties. 9. To wait on breathings before we act Duties, how lawful, how not.
Let it be further considered in these Particulars, how unjust we are, and how free the Lord is.
LEt it be futher considered in these Particulars, how unjust we are, and how free the Lord is.
1. Who ever complains of the want of grace and yet remains in the state of nature, doth close with his want of grace.