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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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so neither does the spirit act in any, though the way seem violent, as in Phinehas and Samuel, their executing of justice, but the Spirit makes it known that it is the Spirit, and that he is not in the mighty wind, nor in the fire, but in the calm voice. So Samuel leisurely and advisedly convinceth Agag ere he kill him, and gives a reason to his conscience from divine justice, 1 Sam. 35. 32, 33. though Samuel then had laid down the sword. It's an useful word Jude 20. Praying in the Holy Ghost; and Ephes. 6. 18. Praying always, with all prayer and supplication in the spirit. What, is there a praying in the flesh? yea, if preaching may be from a principle of the flesh, out of envy and strife, Phil. 1. 15. so may praying be from some rotten principle of fleshly presumption. Lord, Lord, open to us. Which us? to us workers of iniquity, Matth. 25. 11. Luke 13. 25, 26. And 2. some prayer flows from fleshly despair, and not from the spirit. Rev. 6. 16. Mountains and rocks fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne. And 3. The enemies of David cry to the Lord out of fleshly fear and unbelief, not in the spirit, Psal. 18. 41. There is a praying out of deadness and from the flesh, not from the spirit: and often the mere office and the letter not the spirit prays and preacheth out of the man; it's far from that praying Rom. 8. 26. And learn to discern the literal fair influences in praying in the flesh,1 and the sweet, calm, fiery also, and spiritual paining influences of love-sickness, Cant. 5. 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, &c.