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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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3. True it is,1 we love not moral influences; and to be actors in holiness, that spoils and robs the man of his sweet lusts: we would be content to be passive and have the breathings of the Spirit come upon us sleeping and without toil, that we might feel the only sweetness, and delight of duties, not the duty and the gracious acting it self; as a man loves to have been made holy, not to be holy, nor to be made holy by acting and toiling; for the man who hates the Spirit and hates Christ, as the unrenewed Objector doth, how can he love unfeignedly either the gracious habit of holiness, or the gracious influences of Christ? and therefore we may have a desire, of the Lord's real and physical influences, and hate holy moral influences; for the damned only deprecate torment, but they make no prayers to God to be made holy, Mark 5. 7. Matth. 8. 29. Rev. 6. 16.
3. True it is,1 we love not moral influences; and to be actors in holiness, that spoils and robs the man of his sweet lusts: we would be content to be passive and have the breathings of the Spirit come upon us sleeping and without toyl, that we might feel the only sweetness, and delight of duties, not the duty and the gracious acting it self; as a man loves to have been made holy, not to be holy, nor to be made holy by acting and toyling; for the man who hates the Spirit and hates Christ, as the unrenewed Objector doth, how can he love unfainedly either the gracious habit of holiness, or the gracious influences of Christ? and therefore we may have a desire, of the Lord's real and physical influences, and hate holy moral influences; for the damned only deprecate torment, but they make no prayers to God to be made holy, Mark 5. 7. Matth. 8. 29. Rev. 6. 16.