A92141:823
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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2. Therefore the Father loved Christ, and Christ did abide in his love, because he kept his Fathers commandments, John 15. 11. because they were the Fathers commandments.
2. Therefore the Father loved Christ, and Christ did abide in his love, because he kept his Fathers commandements, John 15. 11. because they were the Fathers commandements.
2. It's a temptation to act under deadness, which actually blunts the heart; therefore to obey under a formal temptation, is more spiritual obedience. As for Christ to pray, to believe, to exhort his disciples to watch, and when pain, wrath, the actual pressing curse puts him to tears and hideous cries, Heb. 5. is a perfect copy to all obedience: less thanks to you to pray when the heart is oiled with real influences,1 and feasted with some holy, and the bridegrooms honey-comb, and the feelings of the out-lettings of freest love; as what praise to a wheel to roll down the mount? or for the fire to cast heat, or the Sun to yield light? Feelings of the strong impulsions and breathings of Christs love carry along such a strong necessity of obeying Christs love, being a stronger and a more imperious commander then a fiery Law, almost steals away the elective power, but to pray under the frame and current of a dead disposition working and re-acting on the contrary, from a principle that is strongly real, but from pure moral influences from the pure spiritual commands, 1 Thess. 5. 17. Pray without ceasing, and Psal. 50. 15. Call upon me in the day of trouble, is the most spiritual and perfect obedience. That wine hath the most kindly taste and colour of wine, and is preserved most connaturally, that hath it's being on the mother grape; it's not so when there is something of art (I know not what) to preserve it by, steel