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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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7.1 Divis. There be some influences proper to the head Christ, some peculiar to the members. O what rare actings upon the Son, Psal. 45. 2. Grace is poured in thy lips. v. 7. God thy God hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness. Isa. ⟨p. 203⟩61. 1. The spirit of the Lord God is upon me, because the Lord hath anointed me to preach good tidings to the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the broken-hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound. 2. To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord. In which words are holden forth the influences of the Lord in their fullness, the anointing of the spirit of the Lord upon the head upon the head Christ, and the influence of that anointing upon the members, to wit, on the meek, on the broken-hearted, on the captives, on those that are bound and sold. Then saith the man Christ, the Spirit of the Lord hath sent the strong and fountain-influences of the abounding anointing on me, and I may send the fruits of these holy influences upon the meek to preach to them glad tidings, that they may believe, and influences upon the broken hearts, that they may be bound up, and influences on the captives and prisoners,2 and the sold and oppressed with debt, that they may be made free for binding up of hearts; and freeing of captives and prisoners are impossible without the healing influences of Christ. Then (saith he) God lets out to me and to the members; […] the head receive anointing, and a full fountain, and I issue out streams and life to the members; look then as the dry earth hath a sort of connatural right of means and end to the full clouds and bottles of heaven, and the rain in the clouds, and the cold and dead earth hath a sort of connatural right, by the Lords holy appointment, to the influences of the Sun; so by a decree of free grace, the broken-hearted, the meek, the captives, the prisoners have a right of means in order to the end, to the influences of compassion and tenderness, and of real grace, that in its fullness is in the soul and heart of the Mediator Christ, toward their brokenness bondage and misery who are his. Then may the captive and prisoner claim influences from Christ, as the dry earth in its kind suites and egges that rain that is in the bosom and womb of the clouds for its refreshments: