A92141:701
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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Now these three. 1. Fruition of God, as the last end and satisfaction in him only, seeking no other lover but God in Christ.
Now these three. 1. Fruition of God, as the last end and satisfaction in him onely, seeking no other lover but God in Christ.
2. Loving and adhering to God, there being no room for faith and hope, 1 Cor. 13. 13. (whence comes filling of the concupiscible part, desire, delight.)
3. Praising him eternally and the Lamb.
These three (I say) have both the consideration of duties, and of a reward; in both considerations the Lord lets out his immediate influences on that blessed company in all these. 1. We are sick of love after our prison here, rather then for our choicest life. 2. We seek not the earnest and first fruits of this life.
These three (I say) have both the consideration of duties, and of a reward; in both considerations the Lord lets out his immediate influences on that blessed company in all these. 1. We are sick of love after our prison here, rather then for our choisest life. 2. We seek not the earnest and first fruits of this life.