A92141:269
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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Ass. 4. It may be looked on as another extremity to look to no actings,1 nor dispositions of the heart before we pray; for though the disposition of the heart be no rule morally obliging us, yet to fall upon duties looking only to the Rule, knowing the duty is a duty and suitable to the Rule, and no more but to fly to acting in our own strength is not good.
Ass. 4. It may be looked on as another extremity to look to no actings,1 nor dispositions of the heart before we pray; for though the disposition of the heart be no rule morally obliging us, yet to fall upon duties looking only to the Rule, knowing the duty is a duty and sutable to the Rule, and no more but to flie to acting in our own strength is not good.
- 1Preparation before prayer.
For 1. It is required, that beside it be an uncontroverted duty, other Spiritual and Evangelic circumstances would be considered, as whether Jehu intend the honour of ⟨p. 70⟩God in killing the Priests of Baal; whether the intended honour of God breath upon Pharisees, in praying, and in alms-giving, or if only a thirst to be seen of men, do blow the trumpet and encourage men to the work.
For 1. It is required, that beside it be an uncontroverted duty, other Spiritual and Evangelick circumstances would be considered, as whether Jehu intend the honour of ⟨p. 70⟩God in killing the Priests of Baal; whether the intended honour of God breath upon Pharisees, in praying, and in almes-giving, or if only a thirst to be seen of men, do blow the trumpet and encourage men to the work.