A92141:788
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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
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.
- 1Spiritual dispositions are different from the affections.
1. The spiritual dispositions go and come; the heart and affections of love, joy, sorrow, remain.
1. The spiritual dispositions goe and come; the heart and affections of love, joy, sorrow, remain.
2. The heart is one thing, and the heavenly preparedness of the heart is another thing: As the subject iron differs from the fierceness and heat in iron, and the water differs from the cold and heat that goes and comes from and to the water; so dispositions are spiritual qualities, and the affections the subject; the heart is sometimes cold, and sometimes hot, lively or dead, as the Lord is pleased to visit.