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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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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.
3. The less excellent the habit is, the more it is under the dominion of free-will: the Musician may sing when he will, he needs no influences of grace to stir up his habit; the natural man from himself may blow upon the natural habits of arts and sciences, and the remanents of the image of God, and he may do much from common honesty; but the more excellent and spiritual the infused habit is, the further it is from being under the dominion of free-will; only the North and South-wind of the Spirit can act upon ⟨p. 223⟩this habit supernatural: nor can we pray simply at the nod and stirring of free-will, only the Spirit of Jesus is steersman here; and this is to be holden, that the Spirit so withdraws, as we are guilty consenters to his withdrawing, and in the sinful omission of calling upon the Lord; and when the Spirit acts upon the free-will, and the habit of grace, we are willing consenters to that blessed breathing, and willing joiners in the work of praying; and some commendation and praise the holy Ghost gives to his Saints in all holy actings,