A92141:254
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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5. We may and ought to suit of God what the Lord promiseth in the Covenant of grace; but the Lord promiseth to bestow predeterminating grace in this Covenant,1 as after shall be cleared. Now the faultiness of this, I will not pray, until the Spirit act upon me, and move me to pray, is seen in that it importeth that the moral ground of praying is not, the command of God, pray continually, and that command (call upon me in the day of trouble) which is most false; for another warrant for all moral obedience, then precept, promise or practise, can no man give; yea it supposeth that the warrant of prayer is the influence of grace; Now the influence of grace is the efficient helping cause, not the rule, not the objective cause of either our praying or any acts of our obedience. Yea it is the way of Enthusiasts to make divine impulsions, and not the word of precept the Rule of our obedience.
5. We may and ought to suit of God what the Lord promiseth in the Covenant of grace; but the Lord promiseth to bestow predeterminating grace in this Covenant,1 as after shall be cleared. Now the faultiness of this, I will not pray, untill the Spirit act upon me, and move me to pray, is seen in that it importeth that the moral ground of praying is not, the command of God, pray continually, and that command (call upon me in the day of trouble) which is most false; for another warrant for all moral obedience, then precept, promise or practise, can no man give; yea it supposeth that the warrant of prayer is the influence of grace; Now the influence of grace is the efficient helping cause, not the rule, not the objective cause of either our praying or any acts of our obedience. Yea it is the way of Enthysiasts to make divine impulsions, and not the word of precept the Rule of our obedience.
- 1The faultiness in not praying is not because the holy Spirit moves us not to pray, but because we stir not up our selves to pray.The faultiness in not praying is not because the holy Spirit moves us not to pray, but because we stir not up our selvs to pray.