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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 2. They act at his command, Psal. 78. 26. He caused the East wind to blow in the Heavens, and by his power he brought in the South wind; whether this be by a strong ⟨p. 6⟩terminating influence,1 which displeaseth adversaries of grace and providence, or some other way, we contend not for words; but if the Scripture hold forth, as it doth, that the Lord by his strong and invincible dominion doth indeclinably, and without any possible failing bring forth his decreed effect, some impulsion of God immanent, transient, or mixed, which is terminate upon all second causes there must be; for as he can and doth hinder natural causes to work, as the Sun to move towards his downgoing, Josh. 12. 13. Isa. 38. 8. the Lyon to eat the man, whereas he did fear the ass, 1 Kings 13. 28. so he is the father and cause of all things that fall out, Job 38. 28. Hath the rain a father, or who hath begotten the drops of dew? 29. Out of whose womb came the ice? and the hoary-frost of Heaven, who hath gendered it? 31. Canst thou bind the sweet influences of the Pleiades? or loose the bands of Orion? This teacheth that Job cannot, nor can any creature at his nod; but the Lord can, and he only binds up or lets out the influences of Pleiades, the stars which rise in the Spring, and bring forth flowers and herbs; and orders the course of Orion which bringeth Winter; and order the stars that rise in the South, and in the North. 34. Canst thou lift up thy voice to the clouds, that abundance of waters may cover thee? See his actings.
As 2. They act at his command, Psal. 78. 26. He caused the East wind to blow in the Heavens, and by his power he brought in the South wind; whether this be by a strong ⟨p. 6⟩