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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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5. Its a poor spirit that acts in Cicero, Seneca, and other Pagans: the bastard and the servants privilege is little to a Kings heir and son.
5. Its a poor spirit that acts in Cicero, Seneca, and other Pagans: the bastard and the servants priviledge is little to a Kings heir and son.
As to the second, the differences of that Spirit which is of God are considerable.
1.1 The spirit, John 14. 17. remains in his own, and dwells in them, as in his house, Rom. 8. 11. as a man remains and works in a shop or work-house; and the soul, lives, breaths, acts, discourses in the man: so the spirit of adoption, prays, groans, believes, teacheth, witnesseth, speaketh, heareth in the believer, Matth. 10. 19. Rom. 8. 16, 25, 26. Now the world cannot receive this spirit, John 14. 27. no more then the noble soul of man can find lodging in a brute beast: try what spirit acts in you, and the principles of your actions, and you shall know the influences. Every mans moral actings are as John's baptism, from Heaven or of Men; what sparkles of influences kindle the heart in your actings?
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