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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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8. Nor can I pray in faith, Lord, incline my heart unto thy testimonies: if the voluntary determination of my own heart to his holy testimonies, or the wicked vital refusing to yield unto, or to be led by his testimonies, go before the act of the Lords knowledge or will, or before any efficacious, congruous, internal and victorious drawing of me to Jesus Christ.
8. Nor can I pray in faith, Lord, encline my heart unto thy testimonies: if the voluntary determination of my own heart to his holy testimonies, or the wicked vital refusing to yield unto, or to be led by his testimonies, go before the act of the Lords knowledge or will, or before any efficacious, congruous, internal and victorious drawing of me to Jesus Christ.
9. It cannot be denied but this very way which the Lord hath taken in denying of his influences to the eternal standing of Adam, and to law-doing and law-living is the most excellent course, and that flesh and blood dare not to appear to countermand herein either infinite wisdom, or admirable sovereignty.
9. It cannot be denied but this very way which the Lord hath taken in denying of his influences to the eternal standing of Adam, and to law-doing and law-living is the most excellent course, and that flesh and blood dare not to appear to countermand herein either infinite wisedom, or admirable soveraignty.
For 1. The Law-heaven the Garland, the crown and reward of Law-merit should have been a paradise where there is no tree of life, as Rev. 2. 7. no river of water of life, no Lamb which is in the midst of the throne, to feed and to lead them to the fountain of living waters, as