A92141:256
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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2. Upon the same account, Magus, Acts 8. 21. and other unrenewed men should shift the command of praying; for while we be translated, out of nature to the Kingdom of grace, we want the habit of grace and spirit of adoption by which only we can pray acceptably.
2. Upon the same account, Magus, Acts 8. 21. and other unrenewed men should shift the command of praying; for while we be translated, out of nature to the Kingdome of grace, we want the habit of grace and spirit of adoption by which only we can pray acceptably.
3. How unsavoury shall this be? a man falls over a Bridge and is a drowning, another is going to the place of Execution to die, another is sick to death, all of them may by this shift say, we must not pray lest we take the Name of God in vain, until the Spirit breath upon us heavenly impressions, of speaking in the Spirit to God.
3. How unsavoury shall this be? a man falls over a Bridge and is a drowning, another is going to the place of Execution to die, another is sick to death, all of them may by this shift say, we must not pray lest we take the Name of God in vain, untill the Spirit breath upon us heavenly impressions, of speaking in the Spirit to God.
4. This shift cannot stand to suspend praying, until the Spirit breath from on high; for we are to pray for the spirit's breathing, and for teaching, quickening, enlarging of heart that we may pray and praise, Psal. 51. 15.