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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. Influences more then ordinary were seen in his strength against the Devils, and justice and wrath of God for our sins, in praying, strong believing, in tears and cries, in preaching and exhorting his Disciples, converting the Thief that suffered with him.
4. Influences more then ordinary were seen in his strength against the Divels, and justice and wrath of God for our sins, in praying, strong believing, in tears and cries, in preaching and exhorting his Disciples, converting the Thief that suffered with him.
5. He must have had strong and mighty influences in the course of a holy and sinless conversation, in a mortified walk, refusing a Kingdom when it was offered to him, John 6. though he could have born it out; in being poor for us; in having no hole nor lodging to hide his head; in meek and patient forgiving of his enemies; in being much in prayer, spending whole nights in praying; in praying and fasting forty days; in obeying all laws, fulfilling all righteousness, ceremonial, moral, natural; in all works of mercy, obedience to Caesar, to Parents, Brethren, to souls of men; in his virtues of faith, lowliness, meekness, patience, love, zeal, hope, delighting in God.
5. He must have had strong and mighty influences in the course of a holy and sinlesse conversation, in a mortified walk, refusing a Kingdom when it was offered to him, John 6. though he could have born it out; in being poor for us; in having no hole nor lodging to hide his head; in meek and patient forgiving of his enemies; in being much in prayer, spending whole nights in praying; in praying and fasting forty dayes; in obeying all lawes, fulfilling all righteousnesse, ceremonial, moral, natural; in all works of mercie, obedience to Caesar, to Parents, Brethren, to soules of men; in his vertues of faith, lowlinesse, meeknesse, patience, love, zeal, hope, delighting in God.