A92141:672
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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9.1 Divis. There be some influences in which the Lord concurs with the actings of saving grace; as of faith, love, hope, and other influences, in which the Lord concurs with the actings of a mere gift, or other principles, possibly the flesh, custom, &c. and it were good to know the difference betwixt the one and the other.
9.1 Divis. There be some influences in which the Lord concurrs with the actings of saving grace; as of faith, love, hope, and other influences, in which the Lord concurres with the actings of a meer gift, or other principles, possibly the flesh, custome, &c. and it were good to know the difference betwixt the one and the other.
- 1Influences of grace for the habit of saving grace, and influences for a gift.
Psal. 57. 8. Awake my glory, awake psaltery and harp; and so he speaks to the gift of music to awake and be concurrent in the praising of God, and stirs up the grace of God in himself to praise, when he says I my self will awake early, he teacheth that gift and grace should concur and be stirred up in spiritual duties of praying and praising: hence how we may know when we act from a gift, and when we act from saving grace these Assertions following.
Psal. 57. 8. Awake my glory, awake psaltery and harp; and so he speaks to the gift of musick to awake and be concurrent in the praising of God, and stirs up the grace of God in himself to praise, when he sayes I my self will awake early, he teacheth that gift and grace should concur and be stirred up in spiritual duties of praying and praising: hence how we may know when we act from a gift, and when we act from saving grace these Assertions following.