A92141:794
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. There is a spiritual disposition in the conscience of the Centurion, Luke 23. 47. in Thomas, John 20. 27. in Peter 5. 8. The contrary whereof was in the Pharisees and Rulers wrestling against the manifest light of God, Matth. 12. 22, 23, 24. Matth. 21. 33, 34. & 45, 46. Matth. 28. 11, 12, 13. John 9. 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19. & 34, 35. John 42. 47, 48. Acts 4. 13, 14, 15. Acts 13. 44, 45. As also there is a heavenly disposition in the memory to retain the word, Psal. 119. 11. forbidden, Heb. 2. 1. And gracious dispositions go through the whole soul, in order to all gracious actings, in mind, conscience, will, memory, affections of ⟨p. 245⟩love, faith, hope, desire, fear, anger, and order to all the spiritual duties that can be performed by men, as sinful dispositions may be in all the powers of the soul; if so, the heart being so ticklesome a piece, so ill to be guided, it is of great concernment to see with what dispositions the heart is seasoned, and who they be that lodge here: as heat and cold come in the water by turns, as the summer is hot, and the winter cold, so the soul even of the child of God hath ebbings and flowings of dead and lively dispositions; as the frequent triumphing and rejoicing, and the ordinary and much repeated complaints of the Saints do abundantly evidence, Psal. 22.