A92141:843
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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4.1 She tells of her carnal drowsiness; of her sinful refusing to open, and let in Christ to the heart. So does Jeremiah tell a sad experience of his own; he had quit the prophesying trade, and would speak no more in the name of the Lord; and he was burnt with a fire in his breast, he could not get the word housed in his heart, but it did come abroad.2 This shall be the first difference betwixt spiritual heart-burnings, and the influences that the Spirit leaves, ⟨p. 253⟩and the natural heat. The literal burning leaves no work upon the heart, nor any impression of heavenly experiences. Jehu his heat against Ahab and Baal left no impression of God on him to hate the golden calves, or the way of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin: He did cleave to that way, 2 Kings 10. 28, 30. Let fiery professors show any influence of a gracious work in the heart: the flaming of thorns under a pot, and the flashes of heat from burning straw leave no fire but ashes, and much cold behind them in the cold winter frost; and the generality of dead professors can say nothing to one another, but I have long heard the Gospel, and yet am without God and without Christ. 2. I am convinced of the excellence of Christ, and there yet is no fire or coal of heart-love to Christ in me; and it were good such a missing there were.
4.1 She tells of her carnal drowsiness; of her sinful refusing to open, and let in Christ to the heart. So does Jeremiah tell a sad experience of his own; he had quit the prophecying trade, and would speak no more in the name of the Lord; and he was burnt with a fire in his breast, he could not get the word housed in his heart, but it did come abroad.2 This shall be the first difference betwixt spiritual heart-burnings, and the influences that the Spirit leaves, ⟨p. 253⟩