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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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4. Yet so, as there is no deserving in us of having eyes to see, and spiritual influences to see, to hear, to perceive with a new heart, Deut. 29. 2, 3. as its not the merit of one part of the Earth, the South, that it lie nearer the Sun then another Northern part; nor the good deserving of one Horse that he wear a golden Saddle and a silken Bridle, ⟨p. 64⟩rather than another: this would be minded; What am I Lord? as it was Christ's mind to cry down works in point of salvation, yet not to cry down all actings by way of duty in the New-covenant way. Therefore 5. since grace may be desired (and all gracious influences are grace;) so is there a conformity betwixt the believers will suiting influences, and the revealed and approving will of God (I say not his high decree and ordaining will;) for sure New-Testament or New-Covenant prayers, new oil, and new supply of grace, do import a fresh supply and watering of influences, to be furnished to believers; & especially since we may pray, Hallowed be thy Name in me, thy Kingdom come to me; thy will be done (by me) in the Earth, is it is in Heaven.
4. Yet so, as there is no deserving in us of having eyes to see, and spiritual influences to see, to hear, to perceive with a new heart, Deut. 29. 2, 3. as its not the merit of one part of the Earth, the South, that it lie nearer the Sun then another Northern part; nor the good deserving of one Horse that he wear a golden Saddle and a silken Bridle, ⟨p. 64⟩rather than another: this would be minded; What am I Lord? as it was Christ's mind to cry down works in point of salvation, yet not to cry down all actings by way of duty in the New-covenant way. Therefore 5. since grace may be desired (and all gracious influences are grace;) so is there a conformity betwixt the believers will suiting influences, and the revealed and approving will of God (I say not his high decree and ordaining will;) for sure New-Testament or New-Covenant prayers, new oyl, and new supply of grace, do import a fresh supply and watering of influences, to be furnished to believers; & especially since we may pray, Hallowed be thy Name in me, thy Kingdome come to me; thy will be done (by me) in the Earth, is it is in Heaven.