A92141:735
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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CHAP. III.
A supernatural habit is a seed of influences. 2. We are to improve the habit of grace. 3. The habit of grace in order to the three persons brings a necessity of gracious influences. 4. The Lord is under divers necessities to confer influences. 5. Christ intercedes for the non-converted. 6. Christs Office. 7. The Spirits office, put both under a necessity of conferring of influences. 8. Divers uses result from the necessity that the Lord hath brought himself under to confer influences. 9. How the habit of grace is acted upon, how it ceaseth not.
A supernatural habit is a seed of influences. 2. We are to improve the habit of grace. 3. The habit of grace in order to the three persons brings a necessitie of gracious influences. 4. The Lord is under divers necessities to confer influences. 5. Christ intercedes for the non-converted. 6. Christs Office. 7. The Spirits office, put both under a necessity of conferring of influences. 8. Divers uses result from the necessity that the Lord hath brought himself under to confer influences. 9. How the habit of grace is acted upon, how it ceaseth not.
AS to natural powers, the God of nature hath prepared influences to seeds and plants apt to grow. There are prepared of God also influences for their actual growing: So to the Sun, fire, clouds, he hath in readiness such influences, though he freely let them out; so to supernatural powers and habits he must let out and prepare supernatural influences.
AS to natural powers, the God of nature hath prepared influences to seeds and plants apt to grow. There are prepared of God also influences for their actual growing: So to the Sun, fire, clouds, he hath in readinesse such influences, though he freely let them out; so to supernatural powers and habits he must let out and prepare supernatural influences.