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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. Influences of the spirit saving and lively are called by the names of the Fathers drawing, of the Bridegrooms drawing, John 6. 44. Cant. 1. 4. the Spirits leading, Rom. 8. 14. the Lords teaching, Isa. 54. 13. John 6. 45. the blowing and breathing of the wind upon the garden, Cant. 4. 16. the Lords quickening in his way, Psal. 119. 37. the Lords circumcising of the heart, Deu. 30. 6. the Lords opening of the heart, Acts 16. 14. the Lords instructing and speaking to men with a strong hand, Isa. 8. 11. the Lords power in believers, not inferior to that by which he raised his Son from the dead, and quickens the dead that are in the graves, Eph. 1. 18, 19, 20. Joh. 5. 25. But no such showers of influences go along with a mere gift; which is eminent in many, & exercised to the full, to the good of the Church, & yet such builders of the ark for saving of others perish themselves in the waters.
2. Influences of the spirit saving and lively are called by the names of the Fathers drawing, of the Bridegroomes drawing, John 6. 44. Cant. 1. 4. the Spirits leading,