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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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The sweet passive tractableness of the spirit of grace will enjoin the man to be ranged, bridled and led of God: there be some, whom God can neither lead nor drive: any inspiration falls upon him, a moral influence, this I should and ought to do; but I shall not, I will not do it let God do his best; and it is as if a burning coal were cast into the sea or river, will it burn the sea? will it be welcomed and received? no, its presently quenched. An unbroken Tyrant void of the spirit, when he heard that charge, Let my people go; They are my servants (saith the Tyrant) not thy people. Exod. 5. 2. Who is the Lord that I should obey his voice, and let Israel go? Let his influences be lodged with meekness. O wrestle not against warnings, but yield to them! So are all gracious influences sweet, ⟨p. 183⟩delectable and easy; is it pain, nay its sweet and pleasant for a field of Roses, of Vine-trees to receive showers and summer influences from the Sun and Heaven. It was sweet for the baptised man Christ to receive and lodge the Holy Ghost who came down in the form of a Dove on him in all his influences.
The sweet passive tractablenesse of the spirit of grace will enjoyn the man to be ranged, bridled and led of God: there be some, whom God can neither lead nor drive: any inspiration fals upon him, a moral influence, this I should and ought to doe; but I shall not, I will not doe it let God doe his best; and it is as if a burning cole were cast into the sea or river, will it burn the sea? will it be welcomed and received? no, its presently quenched. An unbroken Tyrant void of the spirit, when he heard that charge, Let my people goe; They are my servants (saith the Tyrant) not thy people. Exod. 5. 2. Who is the Lord that I should obey his voice, and let Israel goe? Let his influences be lodged with meeknesse. O wrestle not against warnings, but yield to them! So are all gracious influences sweet, ⟨p. 183⟩delectable and easie; is it pain, nay its sweet and pleasant for a field of Roses, of Vine-trees to receive showers and summer influences from the Sun and Heaven. It was sweet for the baptised man Christ to receive and lodge the Holy Ghost who came down in the form of a Dove on him in all his influences.