A92141:813
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.
As to the Third,1 under indispositions there may be divers lively actings. As
- 1Many sweet spiritual actings may be under indispositions.
1. Terrors and distractions, and all the waves of Gods displeasure. Heman Psal. 88. 1. O Lord God of my salvation, I cry day and night before thee. v. 9. Lord I have called daily unto thee, I have stretched out my hands unto thee. Psal. 102. the afflicted soul saith, v. 4. My heart is smitten and withered like grass. And here though buried and dead bones scattered at the grave mouth, as when one heweth timber, speak and pray to God, Psal. 141. and the Church so overwhelmed, so that they cannot speak, Psal. 77. 4. yet they speak prayers.
1. Terrors and distractions, and all the waves of Gods displeasure. Heman Psal. 88. 1. O Lord God of my salvation, I cry day and night before thee. v. 9. Lord I have called daily unto thee, I have stretched out my hands unto thee. Psal. 102. the afflicted soul saith, v. 4. My heart is smitten and withered like grass. And here though buried and dead bones sca•tered at the grave mouth, as when one heweth timber, speak and pray to God, Psal. 141. and the Church so overwhelmed, so that they cannot speak,