A92141:574
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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
5.1 The spirit that is of God goes along with the word, if we 1. consider the spirits relation to the word. My spirit and my words, Isa. 59. 21. For the Gospel is the chief chair and seat of the spirit, Rom. 1. 16. Isa. 53. 1. The word is, as it were, the work-house and shop, and the spirit the worker; the word the ship or chariot, and the spirit drives and stirs the promises. The spirit honours so the word, the spirit moves and acts when the word moves and acts; the spirit utters not a groan but according to the will of God in the word, Rom. 8. 26, 27. Acts 10. 44. While Peter yet spake these words, [Greek or Hebrew], the Holy Ghost fell upon those that heard the word. When the ship or the chariot moves, the Pilot or Steers-man and the Coach-man are moved with them. The poor Minister often drives an empty coach, and carries but sounds and letters; but when the spirit strikes in with the word, and is steers-man in the ship, the vessel is afloat, and sails gallantly before the wind.
5.1 The spirit that is of God goes along with the word, if we 1. consider the spirits relation to the word. My spirit and my words, Isa. 59. 21. For the Gospel is the chief chair and seat of the spirit, Rom. 1. 16. Isa. 53. 1. The word is, as it were, the work-house and shop, and the spirit the worker; the word the ship or chariot, and the spirit drives and stirs the promises. The spirit honours so the word, the spirit moves and acts when the word moves and acts; the spirit utters not a groan but according to the will of God in the word,