A92141:721
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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6. The Spirit poured on the thirsty ground, Isa. 44. 3. on the house of David, Zech. 12. 10. is either a gift of nature or a grace. The former can be said by none but Pelagians and Socinians; for if the only principle of the life of God, and the new birth, be a work of our industry, Christ died in vain; if it be a free grace, we must receive it out of Christs fullness; For out of his fullness we all receive, John 1. 16.1
6. The Spirit poured on the thirsty ground, Isa. 44. 3. on the house of David, Zech. 12. 10. is either a gift of nature or a grace. The former can be said by none but Pelagians and Socinians; for if the only principle of the life of God, and the new birth, be a work of our industry, Christ died in vain; if it be a free grace, we must receive it out of Christs fulness; For out of his fulness we all receive, John 1. 16.1
- 1From the habit of grace we perform suitable actings.
5. By this supernatural habit, we perform supernatural duties, and new acts of life; for Isa. 44. By the Spirit given ⟨p. 221⟩they shall spring up as among the grass, as (verse 4.) willows by the water course. They shall graciously profess and swear a covenant to the Lord, v. 5. One shall say I am the Lords, and another shall call himself by the name of Jacob, and another shall subscribe with his hand unto the Lord, and surname himself by the name of Israel. And when the Spirit is poured on the house of Jacob, the second acts flowing therefrom are acts of believing, and looking on Christ whom they pierced, and mourning over Christ, and being in bitterness, as if his first-born were dead. So