A92141:710
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.
1. What necessity there is of the connection betwixt the habit of grace; and how we may fetch breathings of the Spirit from the habit of grace.
1. What necessity there is of the connexion betwixt the habit of grace; and how we may fetch breathings of the Spirit from the habit of grace.
As to the first: The habit of grace is a fixed disposition infused in the soul by the Lord, purchased by Christs merit of his death, by which we perform supernatural duties.
1.1 A habit is a heavenly disposition or quality gracious, by which the man even sleeping is denominated a convert, a believer, a translated man from darkness to light, Col. 1. 13. Acts 2. 44. Acts 4. 4. 1 John 3. 14.
- 1The habit of grace is a permanent disposition.