A92141:483
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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1.1 Its not unlike it may be so for the godly who went to the morning and evening prayers and sacrifices, as is clear, Psal. 141. 2. Acts 3. 1. Luke 1. 8, 9. might go about these duties sometime upon mere custom (and the children of God who know their own backdrawing hearts shall not deny this) and they may pray from a natural conscience, and not so much as is required, and otherwise they do mind the duty as an Ordinance of God, and yet be inflamed with spiritual duties ere they end; this is confirmed by family praying at set times; so may a Pastor by necessity of his office, preach and pray at the beginning with much deadness and coldness, and more then an ordinary straitening of spirit, and yet a fire flaught of a heavenly kindling falls upon the spirit before the work be ended. Any who believes that the wind blows where it lists, and that the influences of the spirit are various as touching their degrees may see the truth of this.
1.1 Its not unlike it may be so for the godly who went to the morning and evening prayers and sacrifices, as is clear, Psal. 141. 2. Acts 3. 1. Luke 1. 8, 9. might go about these duties sometime upon meer custome (and the children of God who know their own backdrawing hearts shall not denie this) and they may pray from a natural conscience, and not so much as is required, and otherwise they do mind the duty as an Ordinance of God, and yet be inflamed with spiritual duties ere they end; this is confirmed by family praying at set times; so may a Pastor by necessity of his office, preach and pray at the beginning with much deadness and coldness, and more then an ordinary straitning of spirit, and yet a fire flaught of a heavenly kindling falls upon the spirit before the work be ended. Any who believes that the wind blows where it lists, and that the influences of the spirit are various as touching their degrees may see the truth of this.