A92141:602
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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3.1 It's a spiritual condition, when Christ casts in feelings, and discernible motions of the spirit, and not only knocks, but Cant. 5. 2, 4. puts in his hand by the hole of the door, if this follow, my bowels were moved for him. And it's a spiritual ⟨p. 184⟩condition when the soul fails, and the spouse falls a swoon at these words, Open to me, my sister, my love, &c. Cant. 5. 2, 6. And these lesser feelings would be turned into consent, and into fixed resolutions; as the spouse, I opened to my well-beloved; I sought him, but I found him not; I called him, but he answered me not: And that came from the feeling of his hand, put in by the hole of the door, ver. 4. compared with ver. 6. For that word, Quench not the spirit, 1 Thes. 5. 19. includes an affirmative; that is, cherish kindly and yield sweetly unto the flowings and sweet influences of the spirit.
3.1 It's a spiritual condition, when Christ casts in feelings, and discernable motions of the spirit, and not only knocks, but Cant. 5. 2, 4. puts in his hand by the hole of the door, if this follow, my bowels were moved for him. And it's a spiritual ⟨p. 184⟩condition when the soul fails, and the spouse falls a swoon at these words, Open to me, my sister, my love, &c. Cant. 5. 2, 6. And these lesser feelings would be turned into consent, and into fixed resolutions; as the spouse, I opened to my welbeloved; I sought him, but I found him not; I called him, but he answered me not: And that came from the feeling of his hand, put in by the hole of the door, ver. 4. compared with ver. 6. For that word, Quench not the spirit,