A92141:272
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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headlong and precipitate duties done in hast argue great profaneness and irreverence to the holy Lord whom we serve and worship. 2. They speak an irreverent not eying of God. 3. Want of bendedness of heart in holy duties. I speak not this, as if praying either set, or instructed, or ejaculatory suits, were to be delayed.
headlong and precipitate duties done in hast argue great profanness and irreverence to the holy Lord whom we serve and worship. 2. They speak an irreverent not eying of God. 3. Want of bendedness of heart in holy duties. I speak not this, as if praying either set, or instructed, or ejaculatory suits, were to be delayed.
Ass. 5.1 To wait upon the flowings of the Spirit, hath not one single meaning. Libertines waiting on the actings of the spirit, and there professed feriation and abstinence from praying, hearing, is a sad delusion.
- 1To wait upon the breathings of the Spirit, how it is lawful, how not.
1. Its a hardening of the heart, while it is to day, and then the foolish Virgins had good reason to be foolish, and to neglect the market, and buy no Oil while the market of Mercy was gone and over, why? the spirit blew never fair for their spiritual trading; and therefore they are to be excused in that they slept all their life.
1. Its a hardning of the heart, while it is to day, and then the foolish Virgins had good reason to be foolish, and to neglect the market, and buy no Oyl while the market of Mercy was gone and over, why? the spirit blew never fair for their spiritual trading; and therefore they are to be excused in that they sleeped all their life.