A92141:255
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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
2.1 This (I will not pray until the Spirit first act upon me) must have either this sense, I will not pray until the Lord first give a praying disposition, or, until the Lord first actually breath upon me. This latter saith indeed, I will not pray until I pray; for the Lord's actual influence includes praying. The former cannot be said; For there is no warrant to disobey the command (pray continually) until I get a new disposition from Heaven; for then might all praying of the renewed be shifted, and the three Disciples ⟨p. 65⟩in the garden might have said to Christ, our Master bids us pray, but we are heavy with sleep and indisposed, and cannot pray, and so must we be excused.
2.1 This (I will not pray untill the Spirit first act upon me) must have either this sense, I will not pray untill the Lord first give a praying disposition, or, untill the Lord first actually breath upon me. This latter saith indeed, I will not pray until I pray; for the Lord's actual influence includes praying. The former cannot be said; For there is no warrant to disobey the command (pray continually) untill I get a new disposition from Heaven; for then might all praying of the renewed be shifted, and the three Disciples ⟨p. 65⟩in the garden might have said to Christ, our Master bids us pray, but we are heavy with sleep and indisposed, and cannot pray, and so must we be excused.
- 1This (I will not pray until the Lord first breath on me by his Spirit) is a wide mistake.This (I will not pray untill the Lord first breath on me by his Spirit) is a wide mistake.