A92141:509
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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Answ. 1. What warrant from the Word to delay duties, that by present obligation of the Law of God are to be done while it is to day, lest hardness of heart come on?
2. What assurance can any man have tomorrow, or the next hour, more then the present hour, when deadness is on, that he shall be master of the Spirits breathing on him, to fetch spiritual dispositions? Now omission of praying, and of other duties, is a heinous sin. Can sin be a hire to purchase or buy the breathings of the Holy Ghost? Did ever man get sweet access to God through the Mediator Christ in prayer, who delays praying because he wants a praying disposition? And can the Lord welcome in the Mediator Christ the man who fathers the sinful omission of prayer, and other duties, upon the holy Spirit of God? Loose Professors delay their repentance upon this, when they are old and a dying they shall be more fit for repentance.
2. What assurance can any man have tomorrow, or the next hour, more then the present hour, when deadnesse is on, that he shall be master of the Spirits breathing on him, to fetch spiritual dispositions? Now omission of praying, and of other duties, is a hainous sin. Can sin be a hire to purchase or buy the breathings of the Holy Ghost? Did ever man get sweet accesse to God through the Mediator Christ in prayer, who delayes praying because he wants a praying disposition? And can the Lord welcome in the Mediator Christ the man who fathers the sinful omission of prayer, and other duties, upon the holy Spirit of God? Loose Professors delay their repentance upon this, when they are old and a dying they shall be more fit for repentance.
3.1 An indisposition to pray is a great affliction to a godly soul; and the so afflicted is to pray to remove that indisposition, and to seek in prayer a spiritual disposition to pray; and that pray continually, is not, pray only when a spiritual disposition to pray is on; for that should be far from praying continually; and that