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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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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. John 14. 13. The well of water springing up to life eternal in the believer. John 4. 14. Rivers of living waters flowing out of the belly. By which the Saints are said to be denominated quickened, Ephes. 2. 1, 4, and 5. and to be light in the Lord, whereas they were once darkness, Ephes. 5. 8. new creatures, 2 Cor. 5. 17. born of God, 1 John 5. 1. 1 John 3. 2. Now this is infused, and no more an acquired habit then regeneration, conversion, translation is acquired.
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, ministred 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,