A92141:589
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. 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, Matth. 14. 9. Matth. 17. 23. Matth. 26. 22. Can a friend lodge in a house, where he is every hour saddened? is not this to chase him away? and especially to sadden the King in the act of sealing your Writs and Evidences of Heaven,3 is not this dreadful? Ye shall know the spirit to be saddened when he acts deadly and lently; as the man who rides on a lame and halting horse advances little in the way, the fault is not in the Rider; So ⟨p. 177⟩when the man is straitened in praying, and he knocks faintly, life and liberty and godly boldness is away; the tools of the worker being broken, how unhandsome is the work?
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 doe to the spirit,