A92141:270
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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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.
2. The frame of the heart in doing would be looked to, as we suppose Elisha did right in that he would not prophecy, while as a passion of Anger was upon him, and therefore called for a Minstrel to sing a Psalm, and then the Spirit of the Lord acted upon him; and whether, while wrath is on, pure hands can be lifted up to God, see 1 Tim. 2. 8. possible out of eager opposition to Enthusiasts and Libertines we run on another extreme, that we rush on duties upon no other account, but only the Scripture is clear, Do this in remembrance of me; and that warranted us to eat at the Lord's Supper prepared or not prepared, but to rush on the duty while some preparation or self-examination go before is clear against another command of God, Let a man try and examine himself and so let him eat; some duties are of that nature, that ex natura rei of themselves they require fixed preparations, as the Priests sanctifying of themselves, and these who offered before they came to the Altar, Psal. 26. 6.