A92141:480
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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CHAP. III.
The second particular of fetching influences is by supernatural actings by the word and spirit. 1. Its a question whether justified ones perform any moral actions without any influence of the habit of grace. 1. Some heat and warmness may arise materially from actings in duties though customary, formal, dead. 3. The exercises of spiritual actions are the best preparations for spiritual actions. 4. Influences of grace oil the wheels of the soul for more spiritual acting. 5. Natural and literal actings, though void of grace, because they are some way under the institution of a divine command are nearer to saving actings of grace, then the contraries of these actions are. 6. A practise of free grace in the Lord, is to be differenced from a promise of grace. 7. How the Lord is under a necessity of giving influences.
The second particular of fetching influences is by supernatural actings by the word and spirit. 1. Its a question whether justified ones perform any moral actions without any influence of the habit of grace. 1. Some heat and warmness may arise materially from actings in duties though customary, formal, dead. 3. The exercises of spiritual actions are the best preparations for spiritual actions. 4. Influences of grace oyl the wheels of the soul for more spiritual acting. 5. Natural and literal actings, though void of grace, because they are some way under the institution of a divine command are nearer to saving actings of grace, then the contraries of these actions are. 6. A practise of free grace in the Lord, is to be differenced from a promise of grace. 7. How the Lord is under a necessity of giving influences.
There be some actings even in renewed men,1 partly from the Spirit, partly from nature, custom or formality. The question is thus framed, because it is a disputable question; Whether justified ones do any actions morally good from an only principle natural, without any influence of the indwelling spirit at all, since their sins, after their being in Christ, are not committed with the full bensil of the will; for the Spirit in some measure retards and weakens the motion of the flesh,