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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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Now as touching influences of grace, it is not as when the same hand smites upon the string of the harp well tuned, and on another string of the harp that is mistuned; it's the same word that sounds in the ears of these in the visible Church, but not the same spirit of grace in the same saving influences that act upon the heart; yea the spirit leaves the heart of some to its own deadness, and acts upon others to bring them to wonder, to be amazed and astonished, and leaves them there; and acts upon a third sort, to leave a strong conviction and a work of humiliation upon ⟨p. 213⟩them; but it does no good, it's nothing above a law-work mixed with some letter of the Gospel; and the Spirit works in some a lively sound work of saving grace; and the same word is the common instrument in all. So our Saviours enumeration of four sorts of hearers takes in all, Matth. 13. How many wonder, and despise, and persecute? Luke 4. Mark 7. Mark 9. Matth. 12. John 11. Acts 3. Acts 4, &c.
Now as touching influences of grace, it is not as when the same hand smites upon the string of the harp well tuned, and on another string of the harp that is mistuned; it's the same word that sounds in the ears of these in the visible Church, but not the same spirit of grace in the same saving influences that act upon the heart; yea the spirit leaves the heart of some to its own deadness, and acts upon others to bring them to wonder, to be amazed and astonished, and leaves them there; and acts upon a third sort, to leave a strong conviction and a work of humiliation upon ⟨p. 213⟩them; but it does no good, it's nothing above a law-work mixt with some letter of the Gospel; and the Spirit works in some a lively sound work of saving grace; and the same word is the common instrument in all. So our Saviours enumeration of four sorts of hearers takes in all,