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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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The fourth particular by which we fetch influences of grace is by heavenly and spiritual dispositions: hence in this we speak 1. Of heavenly dispositions, in order to heavenly influences. 2. Of our actings to come under the influences of grace. 3. Of the obstructions and impediments of heavenly influences, and the contrary cures.
AS touching dispositions: 1. What dispositions are, and how differenced. 2. Of the division of good and evil dispositions. 3. Get heavenly dispositions, and influences connaturally follow. 4. Evidences that dispositions go and come. 5. Spiritual dispositions are different from the affections. 6. There are heavenly dispositions through all the powers and affections of the soul. 7. Sinful dispositions are in all, and they latently creep in. 8. Actings and life under deadness. 9. Many sweet actings there are under deadness. 10. It's fit to go about duties under deadness. 11. Less of strong real influences, and more of moral influence prove the obedience to be more perfect.
1.1 Dispositions are moveable qualities of the soul, beyond and above the habit enabling us to act graciously, and to perform actions suitable to those dispositions; I speak now of gracious dispositions, for there are wicked and sinful dispositions added to the habit of sin original.
1.1 Dispositions are moveable qualities of the soul, beyond and above the habit inabling us to act graciously, and to perform actions suitable to those dispositions; I speak now of gracious dispositions, for there are wicked and sinful dispositions added to the habit of sin original.