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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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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.
Assert. 11. Some sinful sleepiness of the flesh may concur in both the acting of the gift and of the grace; for David bidding both his harp, and so the gift of music awake, and himself awake, teacheth some sinful dullness was upon both one and the other. So when David excites his soul and all that is within him to bless the Lord, Psal. 103. 1. he insinuates that in praising of God fleshly dullness may come upon all that is within him, both the powers of the soul, and the habit of grace and gift, and the skill of singing: it's much to get the fountain made clean in our actings.
Assert. 11. Some sinful sleepiness of the flesh may concur in both the acting of the gift and of the grace; for David bidding both his harp, and so the gift of musick awake, and himself awake, teacheth some sinful dulness was upon both one and the other. So when David excites his soul and all that is within him to bless the Lord,