A92141:713
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.
2. It is a fixed quality different from a spiritual disposition, as Psal. 57. 7. My heart is fixed or disposed, O God, or prepared; but his heart was not ever and always fixed and prepared to praise, though he had ever the habit and seed of God in him after his conversion.
2. It is a fixed quality different from a spiritual disposition, as Psal. 57. 7. My heart is fixed or disposed, O God, or prepared; but his heart was not ever and alwayes fixed and prepared to praise, though he had ever the habit and seed of God in him after his conversion.
3. It is a fixed disposition infused in the soul by the Lord, as a permanent quality; so Isa. 44. 3. I will pour water on him that is thirsty, and floods upon the dry ground. What ⟨p. 219⟩is that flood? I will pour my spirit upon thy seed. Zech. 12. 10. And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem the spirit of grace and of supplication. Ezek. 11. 19. And I will give them one heart; and I will put a new spirit within you; and I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them an heart of flesh. Jer. 31. 33. I will put my Law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts. Ezek. 36. 26. A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you, and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and will give you an heart of flesh.