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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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2.1 There should be an eke made to the working of the spirit; there is needful a sort of helping of the spirit by widening, opening and enlarging the heart; the extending of love, desires, faith, fear to their outmost borders: there is an opening of the mouth wide commanded, Psal. 8. 10. Psal. 224. 7. Lift up your heads and be ye lift up ye everlasting doors. Cant. 5. 2. Open to me my sister, my love, my dove, &c. And this is needful under the actings of the spirit, that we stretch the soul beyond it self and make an eke to the spirit of his own. Hence that charge 1 Thes. 5. 19. Quench not the spirit. The word is, Matth. 12. 20. Matth. 25. 8. Our lamps are out, or quenched, Mark 9. 44, 46. Some cast water upon the fire and holy flamings of the spirit: this makes a cold hearth-stone, and mightily obstructs the working of God; whereas we should add new fuel to his fire, and blow away the ashes and wrestle against deadness, dullness, faintness, and stir up the grace of God, 2 Tim. 1. 6. as smiths with the bellows blow up and quicken the flame: do not quench it in your self by unbelief and uncheerful walking; and break not one another, know that so do the enemies of Christ: He trusted in the Lord that he would deliver him; Let him deliver him, since he delighted in him, Psal. 22. 8. That is to act Satan's office, when men cast water on the flamings of the spirit and crush the spirit and his actings in others.
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