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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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5.1 Nor are all Saints of the altitude of Elijah his zeal; a man much and wholly for God, and fervent in prayer, yet he seems to challenge more zeal to himself for the slain Prophets, digged down Altars, broken Covenant, then was in the holy Lord himself; and so prays that God would take away his life, as if he were the last man of the true Church of God living on Earth; and yet we read in all his sufferings, no apprehension of the anger and indignation of God, such as was in others.
5.1 Nor are all Saints of the altitude of Elias his zeal; a man much and wholly for God, and fervent in prayer, yet he seems to challenge more zeal to himself for the slain Prophets, digged down Altars, broken Covenant, then was in the holy Lord himself; and so prays that God would take away his life, as if he were the last man of the true Church of God living on Earth; and yet we read in all his sufferings, no apprehension of the anger and indignation of God, such as was in others.
- 1Elijah's temper.Eliah's temper.
6. None are so trailed through Hell and fiery indignation, as Job, David, Jeremiah, Heman; there appear in them some habitual mistakes of the love of God, or rather (because sinful acquired habits, are scarcely to be found in the renewed) more fixed inclinations, to apprehend wrathfulness, and Law-dispensation in God, and few are led this way; and the outlettings of influences of grace must be various here.