A92141:787
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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5. If those heavenly disposition were ever in it, it should speak much against the liberty of the blessed Spirit, whose breathings and out-lettings are sovereignly free. Now by this the work of grace should be like the work of nature: we see the fountain always casts out her streams, the Sun ever gives light; the work grace hath a day and a dark night, and Sun-light and Moon-light; that we are in a state of outlawry when he withdraws, to be humbled to the dust for abused love-visits, and may know what is Christs, and what is ours; the fire is ever alike disposed to cast heat; a ⟨p. 244⟩mill-stone, if not hindered, is alike disposed to fall to the earth, or down the mountain.
5. If those heavenly disposition were ever in it, it should speak much against the liberty of the blessed Spirit, whose breathings and out-lettings are soveraignly free. Now by this the work of grace should be like the work of nature: we see the fountain alwayes casts out her streames, the Sun ever gives light; the work grace hath a day and a dark night, and Sun-light and Moon-light; that we are in a state of outlawry when he withdraws, to be humbled to the dust for abused love-visits, and may know what is Christs, and what is ours; the fire is ever alike disposed to cast heat; a ⟨p. 244⟩mill-stone, if not hindered, is alike disposed to fall to the earth, or down the mounrain.
Q. Are not spiritual dispositions nothing else but the hearts affections?
Answ. 1Dispositions heavenly are different from the affections, much more then they are different from the habit of grace.