A92141:548
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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3. What are the divers influences to be taken notice of: ⟨p. 165⟩The two spirits are clear, 1 Cor. 2. 12. But we have not received the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God. Paul had said that the world and the Princes of the world knew not the mystery of the Gospel; why? They had not crucified the Lord of glory, had they known him. As also the spirit teacheth it, ver. 10. how is that proved? from the nature of an infinite spirit, that searcheth all the things of the infinite God; even as a mans spirit searcheth all the things of a man, v. 12. How can we know the things of God, they are far above us. He answers, we who have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit of God, do know the things that are graciously given us of God: they know the things of God; But v. 12. we are such.
3. What are the divers influences to be taken notice of: ⟨p. 165⟩The two spirits are clear, 1 Cor. 2. 12. But we have not received the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God. Paul had said that the world and the Princes of the world knew not the mystery of the Gospel; why? They had not crucified the Lord of glory, had they known him. As also the spirit teacheth it, ver. 10. how is that proved? from the nature of an infinite spirit, that searcheth all the things of the infinite God; even as a mans spirit searcheth all the things of a man, v. 12. How can we know the things of God, they are far above us. He answers, we who have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit of God, doe know the things that are graciously given us of God: they know the things of God; But v. 12. we are such.
Q. What is meant by the spirit of the world?