A92141:401
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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4. Especially we should not counter-work the uncontrollable providence of God; for that is to give the Lord battle, and to lead an army against him: as Isa. 9. 10. The bricks are fallen down, but we will build them with hewen stones; the Sycamores are cut down, but we will change them unto Cedars.
4. Especially we should not counter-work the uncontroulable providence of God; for that is to give the Lord battle, and to lead an army against him: as Isa. 9. 10. The bricks are fallen down, but we will build them with hewen stones; the Sycamores are cut down, but we will change them unto Cedars.
5. There be divers kinds of striving with the Almighty; such are they who blasphemously oppose the shining and convincing power of the Spirit in Christ casting out devils, Matth. 12. such are they who gnash with the teeth and spit upon the shining beauty of godliness in Steven, Acts 7. and kick against pricks as persecutors do, Acts 9. who if they had the Father and Spirit incarnate, as the Son was, would crucify both, and would, were it in there blasphemous power, crucify the God-head; whereas meek yielding to the actings and flowings of the Spirit in others, says there must be much of the Spirit there; for the Spirit cannot but love the Spirit.
5. There be divers kinds of striving with the Almighty; such are they who blasphemously oppose the shining and convincing power of the Spirit in Christ casting out divels, Matth. 12. such are they who gnash with the teeth and spit upon the shining beauty of godliness in Steven,