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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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2. The Spirit of God, John 16. 13. [Greek or Hebrew], He shall guide the way to you in all truth; Rom. 8. 14. as many [Greek or Hebrew], as are led, driven either as a flock by the shepherd, or as a ship by the wind, are the children of God. The Spirit is a Pilot and a Steersman acting and moving in the Saints, directing, counselling, inspiring in all actings: its easy to know the spirits leading by what it drives at,1 Rev. 16. 13. For they are the spirits of devils working miracles, which go forth to the Kings of the earth, and of the whole world to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty. This he says of the three unclean spirits like frogs (the Popes firebrands and incendiaries) who came out of the mouth of the Dragon, out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false Prophet. What hellish influences must drive these men delivered up to such leaders? There is a spirit who rules in the children of disobedience, Satan the Prince of the air, Eph. 2. The spirit of giddiness and error leads Egypt, Isa. 19. 14. The spirit of whoredom, Hos. 4. 12. Hos. 5. 4. that inclines to Idolatry. The spirit of lying, 1 Kin. 22. 22. The spirit of error, 1 John 4. 6. The spirit of unbelief that was in the ten spies led and drive many, Num. 14. 24. But Caleb had another spirit with him. It's the sin of the time we live in, to persecute & resist the spirit; and the more outlettings of the spirit that appear in Steven, the more the Jews set themselves against him. For