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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. Do not all the wretched and profane, practically contradict God? the drunkard will draw, and pull by head and hair, influences to his drunken prayers; the swearer, the oppressor, and the loose-liver will force influences to his empty faith, I believe and am saved; and there must be influences at these golden words, Jam. 2. 16. spoken to the naked and hungry, Depart in peace, be thou warmed and filled. There is some carnal fire and heat in their formalities, and they look upon these influences of God and thank God for them, Luke 18. 11, 12. when as these influences are rather wrathful plagues of God, joining with our sinful acting of hypocrisy, then favours and gracious concurrences of God. But as to the lazy despairing,
3. Do not all the wretched and prophane, practically contradict God? the drunkard will draw, and pull by head and hair, influences to his drunken prayers; the swearer, the oppressor, and the loos-liver will force influences to his empty faith, I believe and am saved; and there must be influences at these golden words, Jam. 2. 16. spoken to the naked and hungry, Depart in peace, be thou warmed and filled. There is some carnal fire and heat in their formalities, and they look upon these influences of God and thank God for them, Luke 18. 11, 12. when as these influences are rather wrathful plagues of God, joyning with our sinful acting of hypocrisie, then favours and gracious concurrences of God. But as to the lazie dispairing,
1. It was the peoples way, when they are exhorted to repent, Jer. 18. 12. There is no hope, but we will walk after our own devices; and they were far from doing all, that men can do, and praying night and day; they were stealing, murdering, whoring, following false gods night and day,