A92141:688
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. Rest not on a gift, nor upon the literal stirring and bastard heat that comes from a gift, or upon literal tears that often flow from a weakened fancy in prayer. Esau both runs and was hot in his hunting for the blessing, and sought the blessing with tears; but there were here no influences of the spirit of grace. Esau, Heb. 12. was a profane man.
2. Rest not on a gift, nor upon the literal stirring and bastard heat that comes from a gift, or upon literal tears that often flow from a weakened fancy in prayer. Esau both runs and was hot in his hunting for the blessing, and sought the blessing with teares; but there were here no influences of the spirit of grace. Esau, Heb. 12. was a prophane man.
Assert. 7. It may be a child of God may be deluded in a particular, thinking his actings from a gift to be actings from grace; but
1. An habitual delusion, such as was in the five foolish virgins, all their life, and until the market of buying oil was spent and over, cannot fall into a regenerate man; for the Lord reveals his state to him.
1. An habitual delusion, such as was in the five foolish virgins, all their life, and until the market of buying oyle was spent and over, cannot fall into a regenerate man; for the Lord reveals his state to him.