A92141:629
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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2. The heart can write back an answer of the missive letters, and print it on the fancy. We know there is fire in the house by the smoke that comes out at the chimney. A man may speak out at a window to another. Satan conveyed by the serpents tongue, and by Evahs eyes, the living thoughts of a Godhead growing on the tree, and can send in a word of a message to the heart, All these will I ⟨p. 191⟩give thee, if thou wilt fall down and worship me. And thou shalt have thirty pieces of silver, if thou wilt deliver up the Lord to us; and from the sons of disobedience he gets a return; he knew what Ahab should answer to the 400 Prophets, and heard that, Thou shalt go, and also prevail. And reason would say since all Satan's prevailings have these two; 1. A commission sought and obtained to tempt Job c. 1. and as particular as if written, as is clear v. 12. Or a sentence of the great Judge to punish sin, 1 Kings 22. 20, 21, 22, 23. 2 Sam. 24. 1. It may appear that the lictor and executioner, though he know not the heart and the thoughts of the Judge directly, yet he knows his own written commission, and what sentence he is to execute, and what mischief he shall do, 1 Kings 22. 22. as the executioner knows whether the sentence bear heading or hanging.
2. The heart can write back an answer of the missive letters, and print it on the fancy. We know there is fire in the house by the smoke that comes out at the chimney. A man may speak out at a window to another. Satan conveyed by the serpents tongue, and by Evahs eyes, the living thoughts of a Godhead growing on the tree, and can send in a word of a message to the heart, All these will I ⟨p. 191⟩give thee, if thou wilt fall down and worship me. And thou shalt have thirty pieces of silver, if thou wilt deliver up the Lord to us; and from the sons of disobedience he gets a return; he knew what Achab should answer to the 400 Prophets, and heard that, Thou shalt goe, and also prevail. And reason would say since all Satans prevailings have these two; 1. A commission sought and obtained to tempt