A92141:714
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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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.
And also that this is an inbiding and permanent quality, infused of God, and an habit not acquired by our industry, by which the Saints are, and really are named anointed, renewed, born again, new creatures, is clear 2 Cor. 3. 3. Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the Epistle of Christ, ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God, not in tables of stone, but in the fleshly tables of the heart. So this habit is called the seed of God, 1 John 3. 9. The anointing (saith John 1. 2, and 20.) which ye have received of him, and abides in you. 27. Yea the Father and the Son making their abode in the soul.