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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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CHAP. V.
Influences of grace are due to the Saints by promise. 2. Some are plagued with plenty of means. 3. The scope of the place, Deut. 29. 3. The great temptations which thine eyes have seen, &c. opened. 4. The nature of the Lord's promise of influences. 5. The efficient causes of influences from the Father and from the Son: influences on the Man Christ. 6. Influences from the Father, how they are ours. 7. Influences from the Son Christ which are promised to us, how they are ours.
There is another way of fetching influences of grace, when we carefully use former grace: as our Saviour saith, to him that hath, shall be given. And so grace shall bring more grace:1 Sown wheat brings forth more wheat. Psal. 119. 1. Blessed are they that walk in the law of the Lord, they shall do no iniquity; then upon the account of a holy walk, the Lord must bestow influences of grace to preserve men from doing acts of iniquity. And there must be a promise of influences, that such as walk in the Law of the Lord, shall walk more in that Law; Prov. 1. 5. A wise man will hear and increase more in learning: then to spiritual wisdom there must be a promise of influences to increase spiritual wisdom. Isa. 40. They that wait on the Lord shall renew their strength, they shall mount up with wings as Eagles, they shall run and not be weary, and walk and not faint. Then waiting on the Lord shall fetch the wind of new quickening influences to wait more upon the Lord, and to run; and they that run, shall run more, and which falls not out in physical running when they are running. Now fresh swiftness and recent vigour of speed shall be given to the runner, and larger breath and spiritnesse then he had before. None are thriving and growing men as the godly are.