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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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Assert. 4. Yet in some sense the habit of grace rests not. For 1. The habit of grace according to the degrees makes the man stronger: as John Baptist by the indwelling of the holy Ghost in some fullness is stronger against temptations of persecutors; and so is Steven fuller of the holy Ghost, then men not converted. 2. The habit of grace debilitates, weakens the acts of sin in the regenerate, that they sin not with full bensil of will; as the indwelling body of sin again weakens the acts of faith, and others the like flowing from the habit of grace; the combat betwixt the flesh and the spirit proves both the one and the other,1 Rom. 7. 14, 15, 16, &c. for this combat is ever in the regenerate. 3. The habit of grace of it self as a weight disposes the renewed man to resist sin; as a stone though violently detained in the air, actu primo, habitually of it self, inclines the stone to move downward to its natural place; whence come some far-off tendency and habitual bowings of the heart to the love of Christ, as warmness of heart, Luke 24. 32. stirring of bowels at the inward motions of Christ on the soul, even when he is kept out, Cant. 5.
Assert. 4. Yet in some sense the habit of grace rests not. For 1. The habit of grace according to the degrees makes the man stronger: as John Baptist by the indwelling of the holy Ghost in some fulness is stronger against temptations of persecutors; and so is Steven fuller of the holy Ghost, then men not converted. 2. The habit of grace debilitates, weakens the acts of sin in the regenerate, that they sin not with full bensil of will; as the indwelling body of sin again weakens the acts of faith, and others the like flowing from the habit of grace; the combat betwixt the flesh and the spirit proves both the one and the other,1 Rom. 7. 14, 15, 16, &c. for this combat is ever in the regenerate. 3. The habit of grace of it self as a weight disposes the renewed man to resist sin; as a stone though violently detained in the air, actu primo, habitually of it self, inclines the stone to move downward to its natural place; whence come some far-off tendency and habitual bowings of the heart to the love of Christ, as warmness of heart,