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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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3. A state of translation is to be gone about; The man hath not the spirit till he be once over the water translated to the Kingdom of the dear Son of God. Christ is not owner of the man that hath not the spirit: If any have not the spirit, he is none of Christ's, Rom. 8. 9. Christ and the Spirit cannot be severed; the spirit that is in the first heir is in all the rest; and we should take it hard to be called, or to be none of Christ's,
3. A state of translation is to be gone about; The man hath not the spirit till he be once over the water translated to the Kingdome of the dear Son of God. Christ is not owner of the man that hath not the spirit: If any have not the spirit, he is none of Christ's, Rom. 8. 9. Christ and the Spirit cannot be sever'd; the spirit that is in the first heir is in all the rest; and we should take it hard to be called, or to be none of Christ's,
3. Heed must be carefully taken that none of the Organs or parts of the new creation be broken.1 A spiritual man cherisheth the spirit in all his operations, he loves and honours his guide and leader. The Scripture notes in four words the wrongs we do to the spirit, Isa. 63. 10. They vexed his spirit of holiness; the word is, Psal. 56. 6. they painfully wrested: as they gave another figure or fashion to my words,2 Ephes. 4. 30. Grieve not the holy spirit. The word [Greek or Hebrew] is to sadden rather then to anger,