A92141:600
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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Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
7.1 To act much in the spirit brings more abundance of the spirit. 1. The more public the work be, the more is the man under the spirit. Christ must have been under mighty flowings of the spirit, who for the public Catholic duty of redeeming mankind was willing to be suspended from the influences of his personal comfort, and to be under that sad cloud of being forsaken of God that God might embrace us. It's the proper work of the spirit to glorify God, John 16. 14. He shall glorify me (saith Christ of the spirit) for he shall receive of mine. Then the more we glorify God and Jesus Christ his Son we testify we partake the more of the flowings of the spirit. The Church hath so much the more of the spirit that she is willing to bear the Lord's indignation, because she hath sinned, Mic. 7. 9. and bear public sufferings to illustrate the glory of his justice.
7.1 To act much in the spirit brings more abundance of the spirit. 1. The more publick the work be, the more is the man under the spirit. Christ must have been under mighty flowings of the spirit, who for the publick Catholick duty of redeeming mankind was willing to be suspended from the influences of his personal comfort, and to be under that sad cloud of being forsaken of God that God might embrace us. It's the proper work of the spirit to glorifie God, John 16. 14. He shall glorifie me (saith Christ of the spirit) for he shall receive of mine. Then the more we glorifie God and Jesus Christ his Son we testifie we partake the more of the flowings of the spirit. The Church hath so much the more of the spirit that she is willing to bear the Lord's indignation, because she hath sinned, Mic. 7. 9. and bear publick sufferings to illustrate the glory of his justice.
- 1A public spirit declares a spiritual man.A publick spirit declares a spiritual man.