A92141:571
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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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.
8. It's lawful to seek sense of Gods loving countenance, in joy in the Holy Ghost, Rom. 14. 17. 1 Pet. 1. 7, 8. in delighting in God, and in duties relating to him and our brethren, and in the consolations of the Holy Ghost, and in the spirits work of sanctifying us; then we may, and are to be grieved at the withdrawings of God, that we see not his power and glory in the Sanctuary, as we have sometimes done, Psal. 63.