A92141:488
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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Did not (say the Disciples) our hearts burn within us while he talked with us by the way, and while the opened to us the Scriptures? Cant. 1. 4. When the King brought me into his chambers: we will be glad & rejoice in thee, and remember thy love more then wine. Sure when the influences of Christ are fiery and live coals, it is no wonder they leave lively warmings upon the heart. Cant. 4. 16. Awake, O North wind, and come thou South, and blow upon my garden that the spices thereof may flow out. It must ⟨p. 147⟩be a speech to the Spirit to breath upon the Saints that they may smell and flow more in the actings of the spirit. Psal. 119. 32. I shall run the ways of thy Commandments, when thou shalt enlarge my heart. Running speaks more of a spiritual capacity to receive drawing influences either actual or habitual; and the enlarging notes straitening, and that influences find us dead and bring vigorousness with them.
Did not (say the Disciples) our hearts burn within us while he talked with us by the way, and while the opened to us the Scriptures? Cant. 1. 4. When the King brought me into his chambers: we will be glad & rejoyce in thee, and remember thy love more then wine. Sure when the influences of Christ are fiery and live coals, it is no wonder they leave lively warmings upon the heart. Cant. 4. 16. Awake, O North wind, and come thou South, and blow vpon my garden that the spices thereof may flow out. It must ⟨p. 147⟩be a speech to the Spirit to breath upon the Saints that they may smel and flow more in the actings of the spirit. Psal. 119. 32. I shall run the ways of thy Commandments, when thou shalt enlarge my heart. Running speaks more of a spiritual capacity to receive drawing influences either actual or habitual; and the enlarging notes straitning, and that influences find us dead and bring vigourousness with them.