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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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4. By some heinous, old and over years guiltiness, we give place to the Devil, and rotten talking and malice and wrath stealing in; Paul is put to that necessary word, Ephes. 4. 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31. Grieve not the Spirit of God, by which ye are sealed to the day of redemption. For such sins bring on withdrawing of influences. Christ knocks and ye put a little stone in the Key-hole, and the sprent is broken, and the door will neither open nor shut: when the wheels of the Horologue are broke, there is no sound of hours heard; when the bones are crushed, the man cannot walk; the spiritual organs, dispositions and powers of David's soul were blunted and out of frame, by his adultery and blood-guiltiness: No wonder then the Spirit was unwilling to dwell and act in his wonted lodging, Psal. 51. 11. Cast me not away from thy presence: and take not (saith he) thy holy Spirit from me. 12. Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation, and uphold me with thy free Spirit. Its good to keep the wheels whole.
4. By some hainous, old and over years guiltiness, we give place to the Divel, and rotten talking and malice and wrath stealing in; Paul is put to that necessary word, Ephes. 4. 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31. Grieve not the Spirit of God, by which ye are sealed to the day of redemption. For such sins bring on withdrawing of influences. Christ knocks and ye put a little stone in the Key-hole, and the sprent is broken, and the dore will neither open nor shut: when the wheels of the Horologue are broke, there is no sound of hours heard; when the bones are crushed, the man cannot walk; the spiritual organs, dispositions and powers of David's soul were blunted and out of frame, by his adultery and bloud-guiltinesse: No wonder then the Spirit was unwilling to dwell and act in his wonted lodging, Psal. 51. 11. Cast me not away from thy presence: and take not (saith he) thy holy Spirit from me. 12. Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation, and uphold me with thy free Spirit. Its good to keep the wheels whole.