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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. It's the same letter and sound of gracious word that comes to all the hearers, Acts 16. and to Lydia, but the same heart opening of the spirit goes not along; as many externally hear the noise of the report of Gospel-tidings, to whom the arm of the Lord is not revealed, Acts 16. 13, 14. it's better experiencedly to feel, then literally to search how the word is the chariot, the Spirit the driver of the chariot.
2. Such as receive the engrafted word, or the word and Spirit, shall not much dispute how or by what cleft quâ rimâ the Lord came in, here he is now, the word is the instrument: the blind mans word, John 9. 25. one thing I know, that whereas I was blind▪ now I see: is enough, though some cannot write a chronicle, or tell the history, or aim, how place, manner of their conversion.
2. Such as receive the ingraffed word, or the word and Spirit, shall not much dispute how or by what clift quâ rimâ the Lord came in, here he is now, the word is the instrument: the blind mans word, John 9. 25. one thing I know, that whereas I was blind▪ now I see: is enough, though some cannot write a chronicle, or tell the history, or aim, how place, manner of their conversion.
3. Some are troubled how Sovereignty of quickening influences in the gracious Lord, who quickens hic & nunc, in every duty, and withdraws his sovereign concurrence as he best pleaseth, can consist with our debt of duty. It's safest to look to duty and the commanding will to rise up and be doing, and not to dazzle the wit with disputing the sovereignty of God, nor to enquire into his latent decreeing will.