A92141:726
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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1. In the rise; industry and free-wills trading may purchase the habits of sciences and arts; this is infused from heaven. I will pour water on the thirsty ground, saith the Lord, for mine own sake do I this, Isa. 44. Ezek. 36. 32. This habit is indeed Christs trading, and the fruit of the travel of his soul, and stands Christ at a high price.
2. Other habits may be forgotten and lost; this is a part of the believers stock, of Christs buying, and so in Christs keeping. Christ keeps his own purchase from wasting in shipwreck: It's the immortal seed, the well that springs up to life eternal, John 4. 14. the remaining anointing, 1 John 2. 20. the imbiding seed of God, 1 John. 3. 9.
2. Other habits may be forgotten and lost; this is a part of the believers stock, of Christs buying, and so in Christs keeping. Christ keeps his own purchase from wasting in shipwrack: It's the immortal seed, the well that springs up to life eternal, John 4. 14. the remaining anointing, 1 John 2. 20. the imbiding seed of God, 1 John. 3. 9.