A92141:594
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. But there is a vengeance beyond a vengeance, and fiery indignation, and more then an ordinary hell to such as resist the spirit in the Prophets, and do despite to the Spirit of grace, Heb. 10. 28, 29, 30. Matth. 12. 31, 32. Killing of the Prophets and slaying of them is a sort of killing of the spirit in men, as the Jews killed the Lord of glory in the man Christ, & wished there were neither in the world, God nor the Spirit, nor God incarnate: and this is just as if men would put hands in so much of God and of the Spirit as they find acting any thing of God in others or themselves: this hateful persecuting of godliness is the dreadful national sin of this age. Find ye not the actings of the spirit sweet and heaven-like? if so, it speaks a spiritual disposition.
3. But there is a vengeance beyond a vengeance, and fiery indignation, and more then an ordinary hell to such as resist the spirit in the Prophets, and doe despight to the Spirit of grace, Heb. 10. 28, 29, 30. Matth. 12. 31, 32. Killing of the Prophets and slaying of them is a sort of killing of the spirit in men, as the Jews killed the Lord of glory in the man Christ, & wished there were neither in the world, God nor the Spirit, nor God incarnate: and this is just as if men would put hands in so much of God and of the Spirit as they find acting any thing of God in others or themselves: this hateful persecuting of godlinesse is the dreadful national sin of this age. Find ye not the actings of the spirit sweet and heaven-like? if so, it speaks a spiritual disposition.
4.1 Much of self-denial speaks much of the spirit: he who will be least his own is most God's, and partakes most of the divine nature. The spirit loves the room of self; I live not, but Christ (by his Spirit) lives in me,