A92141:360
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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1. The Sovereignty of God is wonderful in the various tempers of renewed ones. 2. In various influences. 3. In the desertions of the Saints under the Old and under the New-Testament. 4. In variety of desertions of elect and reprobate, and God's various dispensations to them. 5. Q. What we may do to wrestle out from under desertions? 6. Variety of temptations. 7. Rules for our behaviour under them, in order to Influences.
1. The Soveraingty of God is wonderful in the various tempers of renewed ones. 2. In various influences. 3. In the desertions of the Saints under the Old and under the New-Testament. 4. In variety of desertions of elect and reprobate, and God's various dispensations to them. 5. Q. What we may doe to wrestle out from under desertions? 6. Variety of temptations. 7. Rules for our behaviour under them, in order to Influences.
The Sovereignty of God is much to be observed, in the Lord's manner of dispensing of grace;1 James and John are called being at their Nets, and [Greek or Hebrew] immediately they leave their father and follow him, Matth. 4. 21, 22. Matthew hears but one word, follow me, Matth. 9. 9. and he follows Christ. A gentle throw of the key opens Lydia's heart: the hearers of Peter, who had crucified the Lord of glory, are more violently rent and torn, as if the sharpest points, or the stings of many impoysoned Dragons and Scorpions, had been at once fastened in their hearts, Acts 2. 37.2 the way of Saul's coming with trembling and astonishment, and blindness, and fasting, and praying three days, and the Jailers down casting may witness, that the lock being more rusted and the iron blunted,