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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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3. Threatenings and curses are charged upon every one who abides not in all that is written in the book of the Law to do it, Deut. 27. 26. And yet it's beyond controversy that no flesh can keep the Law so as it requires, else Jesus Christ died in vain, Gal. 3. See Deut. 28. 4. We are not freed from an obligation to obey and run, even we who are renewed in the spirit of our mind, because the Lord draws not. For charges and commands are laid upon us under indispositions; yea the Lord speaks to such as lived in suffering times, who could not choose but they must be in much heaviness. Phil. 4. 4. Rejoice in the Lord always, again, I say rejoice. So speaks he to weak ones, Eph. 6. 10. My brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might. ⟨p. 154⟩So speaks Christ to fainting John, when in a swoon he could not command himself, Rev. 1. 17. Fear not, I am the first and the last. And to the perishing disciples, Mat. 8. 26. Why are ye fearful, O ye of little faith? And the mourner is most indisposed to believe, Isa. 50. 10. He that walks in darkness, and hath no light, let him trust in the name of the Lord, and stay on his God. We are bidden be upon the wing and ready, though we be dumpish and indisposed, 1 Thess. 5. 17. To obey that, pray without ceasing, in all things give thanks. Yea under all contrary dispositions and habits of unbelief we are to act, Isa. 41. 14. Fear not, worm Jacob.
3. Threatnings and curses are charged upon every one who abides not in all that is written in the book of the Law to do it,