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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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Now as touching the Author of influences (that we may come more particularly to the supernaturalness of influences) we know the Father, 1the Son, the holy Spirit are all in Scripture said to act upon the soul, in a gracious way. It shall not be needful to speak much of the Father's influences upon the man Christ in sending and bestowing the Spirit and the anointing above his fellows upon him: In the influences of the God-head, in a personal union upon the Man Christ in filling him with the holy Ghost from the womb: and especially the Lord was mighty in him in preaching with authority; so that the hearers were astonished, and all wondered at the gracious words that proceeded out of his mouth, 2in praying while his countenance shined.
- 1The three persons, the Father, Son, and Spirit give influences.
- 2The fullness of influences on the man Christ.The fulness of influences on the man Christ.
And 2. The Lord's influences were evident in disputing with the Doctors in the Temple, when he was but twelve years of age, in silencing the learned enemies in strongly convincing parables.
3. God was mighty in miracles of all sorts, in casting out Devils, healing all manner of diseases instantly without medicine, in raising the dead, in rebuking the sea and the winds, multiplying the loaves, blasting the fig-trees, Acts 16. 39