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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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Prop. 1. God by order of nature first acts upon the creature, and gives his stirring up influence to it. We ⟨p. 123⟩cannot, in genere causae physicae, first breath upon God; he prevenes the Sun, and the Sun riseth or riseth not, as the Lord pleaseth to act upon it; but no second causes do prevene the first or universal cause: the Sun and Heaven do act first upon the Rose, but the Rose doth not first act upon the Sun and Heaven; Job 37. 7. He sealeth up the hand of every man that all men may know his works, &c. By the breath of God frost is given; this shows that the host of creatures in Heaven and in Earth, and the Sea are all dead passive sleepy cyphers and can do nothing, if the Lord do not stir them. God must be Father, Lord, and Author of all created actings, and faith would without carefulness or unbelief commit all to so wise a Steersman; though (Phil. 4. 6.) the Sea shall drown me, the Fire consume me, the Air suffocate me; yet I desire to hear and obey that, Be careful in nothing, but pray, Matth. 6. I shall perish for want, ver. 25.1 Take no thought. They will kill me, if I confess Christ; Fear not, Matth. 10. 28, 29. your Father cares for two sparrows and for every hair of your head. O but the Ship I am in is a sinking. Matth. 8. 26. Why are ye fearful? waken Christ by praying; ah, my little daughter is dead, Fear not, only believe, Mark 5. 36. ah they shall deliver us to synagogues and prisons, and bring us before Kings, and all men shall hate us for Christ's sake. True: But there shall not one hair of your head perish; 2its but our unbelief which sees God suffering all to roll and reel as Fortune, Nature, and Devils will, which makes us sinfully care; For the Lord and Father of Christ cannot vace, and Christ's not working is contrary to