A92141:785
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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3. To say that spiritual dispositions are as permanent and constant as habits, is to deny the going and coming of the Spirit in Christs love-visits. Now certain it is the Spouse is not ever sick of love for Christ, as Cant. 2. nor is there such a flaming of love dispositions, as when the Spouse saith Cant. 1. 5. A bundle of myrrh is my beloved to me, he shall lodge all the night between my breasts. When a sleepy drowsiness is on, that she suffers the well-beloved to knock, and stand and knock, while his head is full of dew, and his locks wet with the rain of the night, and refuses to open, yea positively gives a reason that she cannot lodge him in the house, nor between her breasts, I have put off my coat, how shall I put it on? Such a spiritual love-sickness is far off.
3. To say that spiritual dispositions are as permanent and constant as habits, is to deny the going and coming of the Spirit in Christs love-visits. Now certain it is the Spouse is not ever sick of love for Christ, as Cant. 2. nor is there such a flaming of love dispositions, as when the Spouse saith Cant. 1. 5. A bundle of myrrhe is my beloved to me, he shall lodge all the night between my breasts. When a sleepy drowsiness is on, that she suffers the welbeloved to knock, and stand and knock, while his head is full of dew, and his locks wet with the rain of the night, and refuses to open, yea positively gives a reason that she cannot lodge him in the house, nor between her breasts, I have put off my coat, how shall I put it on? Such a spiritual love-sicknesse is far off.
4. When a contrary disposition to adultery is on, and Davids hand at the pen writing a letter to contrive the killing of innocent Uriah; and the unbelieving fear of loss of life is upon Peter, so that he denieth his Lord, there could not be an heavenly disposition to make spiritual songs, to pray, to praise, to confess Christ before men, on either the one or the other.