A92141:274
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.
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.
2. Its a confounding of the Rule, the Word of God, and of the Spirit which quickens the Word, and makes it effectual.
3. Its to excuse all wicked men, and to loose them from the law of God; We can do no better, blame the Spirit, (say they) which blows not; and many other absurdities hence follow.
3. Its to excuse all wicked men, and to loose them from the law of God; We can doe no better, blame the Spirit, (say they) which blows not; and many other absurdities hence follow.