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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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Prop. 2. It is a right Rule, not to separate Sovereignty from the Word, or the Omnipotency of grace from the ⟨p. 59⟩Promise, otherwise we make a sort of Idol of Omnipotency; seek we them and pray for influences of grace not peremptorily hic & nunc to every single acting,1 Psal. 119. 2. My soul cleaveth to the dust: quicken thou me according to thy word. Ver. 28. My soul melteth for heaviness: strengthen thou me according to thy word. Ver. 107. I am afflicted very much, quicken thou me according to thy word, v. 154.
Prop. 2. It is a right Rule, not to separate Soveraignty from the Word, or the Omnipotency of grace from the ⟨p. 59⟩Promise, otherwise we make a sort of Idol of Omnipotency; seek we them and pray for influences of grace not peremptorily hic & nunc to every single acting,1 Psal. 119. 2. My soul cleaveth to the dust: quicken thou me according to thy word. Ver. 28. My soul melteth for heaviness: strengthen thou me according to thy word. Ver. 107. I am afficted very much, quicken thou me according to thy word, v. 154.
- 1We are not to seek Influences of life separated from the word.
For 1. A gracious heart seeks no other out-lettings of grace to this or that duty, but according to the promise; Now the promise is not contrary to the Sovereign dispensation; and there is no such Sovereignty, but that there are many withdrawings of God, whence follows deadness and the souls melting for heaviness; Nor is there either promise or dispensation, that the believer shall, in every moment of time, be lively and vigorous, and have the heart lifted up in the ways of God; except we would say, Earth is Heaven, and we are not for a time in heaviness, if need be.