A92141:604
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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Then since the spirit is a spirit of life, and a quickening and living spirit, Rom. 8. 1 Cor. 15. the more watchfulness in any, the more of the spirit; For when the spirit enters in the dry bones, they become an army of living men, whereas before they were farther from life and spirit then sleeping bones. Let us not sleep as do others: but let us watch, and be sober. For they that sleep, sleep in the night, 2 Thes. 5. 6, 7. The night is far spent, let us walk honestly, as in the day, not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, nor in strife and in envying, Rom. 13. 13. This is like the putting on of the Lord Jesus, which is a work of the spirit; for sleeping men put not on their garments. Ministers especially are to watch, yea to watch in all things: then in sleeping they must watch, 2 Tim. 4. 5. And hardly can fighting, and enduring hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ, commended to the Minister, 1 Tim. 6. 12. 2 Tim. 2. 3. consist with sleeping, if we know how near Satan the roaring Lion (who sleeps not) is to our quarters and camp, 1 Pet. 5. 8. Who can sleep and be secure, and resist Satan? or stand against him steadfast and fixed in the faith? ver. 9. Christ is much upon this, by Matthew, Mark, and Luke, Watch, Watch, and pray; and lest it slip them again, I say to you, Watch, Matth. 26. 38, 40, 45. Matth. 24. 42. Matth. 25. 13. Mark 13. 23. Mark 14. 38.