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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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2. How condescending is his mercy, who denies not his influences of grace to us, though the flesh be acting often, and retarding the spirit in our actings?
Assert. 2. We are to take heed that we knock not at the wrong door: we may pray and preach from a gift of praying and humane eloquence, and a civilized and well-skilled fancy, and a literal mind versed in the letter of the Scripture, when we think that we are praying from the spirit of adoption,1 and the gracious habit of praying. So the like may be said of Preaching, and singing praises; how many prophesied and cast out Devils from a mere gift, and die in that deluded condition, and are possessed with that habitual mistake (which is never tried) that they prophesied and cast out Devils from a sanctified principle? read Matth. 7. 22, 23, 24. Luke 13. 25. Matth. 25. 11, 12.
Assert. 2. We are to take heed that we knock not at the wrong door: we may pray and preach from a gift of praying and humane eloquence, and a civilized and well-skilled fancy, and a literal mind versed in the letter of the Scripture, when we think that we are praying from the spirit of adoption,1 and the gracious habit of praying. So the like may be said of Preaching, and singing praises; how many prophecied and cast out Devils from a meer gift, and die in that deluded condition, and are possessed with that habitual mistake (which is never tried) that they prophecied and cast out Devils from a sanctified principle? read Matth. 7. 22, 23, 24.