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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. Gracious dispositions are moveable qualities, this differenceth the disposition from the habit of grace; and ⟨p. 241⟩therefore know wherein spiritual dispositions and spiritual habits agree; and 2. wherein they differ. 1. Both are above nature, for we being born in sin, mind, conscience, will, and affections, being polluted and corrupt in such heirs of wrath; no man is born with habits of grace, or gracious disposition. 2. Through the want of both, all are alike unfit by nature to be the work-house of the holy Ghost. 3. Both the habit of grace, as it is proved Book 2. and much more gracious dispensations are the purchase of the merit of Christ. 4. Both are the supernatural gifts of God infused from above, and neither of them acquired or purchased by natural actings: it's clear of the habit of grace. John 14. 16. I will pray the Father, and he shall send you the Comforter. Christ sends him, the Father sends him in Christs name. John 14. 26. he shall receive of mine and show it to you. Now the holy Spirit, the Comforter dwells in the Children of God not personally, though he be said to dwell in them, and to speak in them. 1. In the habit and divine power, given to them to confess Christ before men, Matth. 10. 19. Acts 4. 8. or in preaching, working of miracles, Acts 6. 8. or in praying, Acts 6. 10, 11. Acts 7. 55, 56. 2. In actuating that power, in giving grace actually to will and to do, to confess, prophesy, Luke 1. 27, 41, 42. Luke 2. 27, 28. to pray▪