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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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CHAP. IV.
Now the third particular we proposed to speak to, was the connection between the habits of grace, and actual breathings; and how we may by using habits fetch home the breathings of the Spirit. The habit of grace is to be considered two ways. 1. In order to God. 2. In its own nature. In order to God 1. The Father. 2. The Son. 3. The Spirit.
Now the third particular we proposed to speak to, was the connexion between the habits of grace, and actual breathings; and how we may by using habits fetch home the breathings of the Spirit. The habit of grace is to be considered two ways. 1. In order to God. 2. In its own nature. In order to God 1. The Father. 2. The Son. 3. The Spirit.
1. IN order to God and his holy decree, if the Lord ordain a certain number to glory,1 and upon that account bestow the habit of grace upon these so chosen; then God, who doth nothing in vain, when he creates powers and habits, must intend to send influences to act upon these powers and habits; as when God creates the Sun, a heavenly body, which is apt to move, to send forth heat and light, he must intend by constant law and decree to join his influences to the moving and shining of the Sun; otherwise, if he had created these heavenly bodies never to be acted upon for the sending forth of their virtues of light, heat, motion, he had created Sun and Stars in vai: o if the husbandman make a plough, and never make use of it for tilling the ground; and make a sickle, and never put it in act for reaping,