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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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But this is also a tempting of God. 1. We are not to pray for influences physical simply, and absolutely for all uses, and ends to work miracles, to remove mountains, but especially we are to pray for more influences,1 and such as are suitable to our ordinary duties; Psal. 119. 36. Incline my heart (but he suits not of God every bowing of the heart, abstracted from the word) incline my heart unto thy testimonies and not to covetousness. Ver. 133. Order my heart in thy s•eps, let not any iniquity have dominion over me. 2. David seeks not every sort of quickening influences; but Psal. 119. 25. Quicken thou me according to thy word. Verse 40. Quicken me in thy righteousness. Verse 88. Quicken me after thy loving kindness. Ver. 149. O Lord, quicken me according to thy judgement. Ver. 156, and 116. Uphold me according to thy word, that I may live. Quakers and Familists seek after the furious wild-fire of hell, skaddings and flamings of a spirit abstracted from the ⟨p. 95⟩word; Hence the brothers killing of the brother hath been fathered on the Spirit, and railing, bitter speaking, blaspheming have been laid upon such a spirit.
But this is also a tempting of God. 1. We are not to pray for influences physical simply, and absolutely for all uses, and ends to work miracles, to remove mountains, but especially we are to pray for more influences,1 and such as are sutable to our ordinary duties; Psal. 119. 36. Incline my heart (but he suits not of God every bowing of the heart, abstracted from the word) incline my heart unto thy testimonies and not to covetousness. Ver. 133. Order my heart in thy s•eps, let not any iniquity have dominion over me. 2. David seeks not every sort of quickning influences; but Psal. 119. 25