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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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And an high-way shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called the way of holiness, the unclean shall not pass over it, but it shall be for those; the way faring men, though fools, shall not err (therein.) 9. No lion shall be there, nor any ravenous beast shall go up thereupon, it shall not be found there: but the redeemed shall walk there. Were all the stones and rocks of a a Land turned into gold, it should prove that the Sun had most strong influences on that land. The stony hearts under the New Testament are changed into new hearts, Ezek. 36. 26. and a people of hard metal of iron and stone, transformed into precious stones, Carbuncles, Agates, Sapphires; and that made true, All thy children shall be taught of God, Isa. 55. 11, 12. This doth evince that the influences of God shall be mighty in those who believe under the New Testament,1 even the exceeding greatness of his power, which he wrought in Christ when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in heavenly places. Such things say that such as live under the Gospel would say what a change is made in them. The Gospel finds you stones and iron, and leaves you stones and iron; O but that is sweet, Christ found me clay, and now I am ⟨p. 201⟩gold, as the man John 9. 25. One thing I know, that where I was blind, now I see. 1 Tim. 1. 13. Once I was a blasphemer, a persecutor, an injurious person, but I obtained mercy. Ah it's a hard condition, born an heir of wrath, dying worse then an heir of wrath; for sin original, and the habit of wickedness was but a little brook when the reprobate man was born; but when he dies, it's a mighty river, and a great sea. What hath the Gospel done to you? It's more then the power of the Sun, it's a strong influence of God the first cause, that makes clay gold, and common earth silver, and copper, and brass. Many cannot tell where Christ found them, and where they are now.
And an high-way shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called the way of holiness, the unclean shall not pass over it, but it shall be for those; the way faring men, though fools, shall not erre (therein.) 9. No lion shall be there, nor any ravenous beast shall goe up thereupon, it shall not be found there: but the redeemed shall walk there. Were all the stones and rocks of a a Land turned into gold, it should prove that the Sun had most strong influences on that land. The stony hearts under the New Testament are changed into new hearts,