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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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Answ. They are not one: For 1. The habit is the seed of God that remains always in us, 1 John 3. 9. and the anointing that dwells in us,1 1 John 2. 20, 27. but a disposition comes and goes, ebbs and flows. A child of God will be under deadness and witheredness, the soul cleaving to the dust, dropping away for heaviness, like a bottle in the smok•, when the man with the habit of grace will pray like one sweating and rowing with oars against the tide and ⟨p. 243⟩stream. Why doth David pray so often to be quickened, if he was ever in a lively disposition?
Answ. They are not one: For 1. The habit is the seed of God that remaines alwayes in us, 1 John 3. 9. and the anointing that dwels in us,1 1 John 2. 20, 27. but a disposition comes and goes, ebbs and flowes. A child of God will be under deadness and witheredness, the soul cleaving to the dust, dropping away for heaviness, like a bottle in the smok•, when the man with the habit of grace will pray like one sweating and rowing with oars against the tide and ⟨p. 243⟩stream. Why doth David pray so often to be quickened, if he was ever in a lively disposition?
- 1Dispositions are not ever alike, but various and changeable.