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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. If the habit of grace be strong, and much of the fullness of God in Steven, in John Baptist, in Paul, they act in the way of God accordingly.
2. If the habit of grace be strong, and much of the fulness of God in Steven, in John Baptist, in Paul, they act in the way of God accordingly.
3.1 If the habit of grace be qualified with a super-added disposition, heavenly and spiritual, there are boilings and stirrings in the heart; as in Paul to pray, Acts 20. after the spirit in him hath been graciously and heavenly exhorting the Church of Ephesus, he kneels down and prays; and Acts 17. 16. while he is waiting for Silas and Timothy, there is upon his mind a burning fever, when he saw the city wholly given to idolatry. And there will be some sweet achings and gnawings of the heart pressing the man to pray, praise, and sing, Psal. 57. 7. My heart is fixed, O God, my heart is fixed, I will sing and give praise.
3.1 If the habit of grace be qualified with a super-added disposition, heavenly and spiritual, there are boylings and stirrings in the heart; as in Paul to pray, Acts 20. after the spirit in him hath been graciously and heavenly exhorting the Church of Ephesus, he kneels down and prayes; and Acts 17. 16. while he is waiting for Silas and Timothy, there is upon his mind a burning fever, when he saw the city wholly given to idolatry. And there will be some sweet akings and gnawings of the heart pressing the man to pray, praise, and sing,