A92141:570
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. When we pray for the spirit of grace to be poured on us from on high, we pray not for the giving of the bare habit, for that could not hinder David, Lot, Peter, Asa, Jehoshaphat, Aaron, Hezekiah, and others of the Saints, to fall into sad and heinous transgressions; but we suit also from the Lord the ⟨p. 171⟩sanctified use and exercise of grace, and so must suit influences.
5. When we pray for the spirit of grace to be poured on us from on high, we pray not for the giving of the bare habit, for that could not hinder David, Lot, Peter, Asa, Iehoshaphat, Aaron, Hezekiah, and others of the Saints, to fall into sad and hainous transgressions; but we suit also from the Lord the ⟨p. 171⟩sanctified use and exercise of grace, and so must suit influences.
6. When we pray that God would not take his spirit from us, Psal. 51. 12. nor forsake us, nor take the word of truth utterly out of our mouth, Psal. 119. 43. we then also pray that he would not withdraw gracious influences.
7. A gracious finding how sweet, safe, and comfortable it is to be acted, led, moved, guided by the sweet influences of the spirit, cannot but be grieved at the departure of such a guide and counsellor.
7. A gracious finding how sweet, safe, and comfortable it is to be acted, led, moved, guided by the sweet influences of the spirit, cannot but be grieved at the departure of such a guide and counsellour.