A92141:507
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. We are to pray under deadness, as David doth, Psal. 119. Quicken me in thy way; quicken me in thy righteousness; quicken me according to thy word, 1&c. v. 37, 40, 88, 107, 156, 159. Deadness, when David had much of the fullness of God, hath been creeping on seven times, and he seven times prays for quickening, like one that is every hour in a swoon; out of one swoon he falls in another, he makes signs to such as are near by to be comforted with wine and apples, as the Spouse, Cant. 2. 5. And therefore this is but a childish shift, I am dead and indisposed, and therefore will not pray, nor believe, nor hear, nor go about any such duties. Because you are dead and indisposed, are you therefore lawless, and freed of all debt of duties which are imposed by either the Law of God? or 2. the constraining love of Christ? or 3. bonds and ties laid on you by the free grace of Christ, and the state you are in, being now translated from death to life?
3. We are to pray under deadnesse, as David doth, Psal. 119. Quicken me in thy way; quicken me in thy righteousness; quicken me according to thy word, 1&c. v. 37, 40, 88, 107, 156, 159. Deadnesse, when David had much of the fulnesse of God, hath been creeping on seven times, and he seven times prays for quickening, like one that is every hour in a swoon; out of one swoon he falls in another, he makes signs to such as are neer by to be comforted with wine and apples, as the Spouse, Cant. 2. 5. And therefore this is but a childish shift, I am dead and indisposed, and therefore will not pray, nor believe, nor hear, nor goe about any such duties. Because you are dead and indisposed, are you therefore lawlesse, and freed of all debt of duties which are imposed by either the Law of God? or 2. the constraining love of Christ? or 3. bonds and ties laid on you by the free grace of Christ, and the state you are in, being now translated from death to life?