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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.
While he opened the Scriptures.
The fourth particular is the fuel that makes the fire; the Scriptures opened, and opened by Christs key; Is not my word like a fire? saith the Lord, Jer. 23. 15. Yea, in Christs baptizing there is fire. John baptizeth with water, and no more, as a cold and watery seal; but Christ, Matth. •. 11. baptizeth with the holy Ghost and with fire. The word ⟨p. 248⟩of prophecy was in Jeremiahs bowels,1 as a fire shut up; and this is the fifth difference betwixt the literal and spiritual heat; the heavenly heart-burning goes along with the Scriptures. 2. With the Scriptures so opened and applied by the spirit of Jesus as by a strong power, burning coals are cast into the heart. As touching the former, the difference betwixt this and the Libertines spirit, or the Enthusiasts, are to be observed, and the spirit of the children of God.
The fourth particular is the fewel that makes the fire; the Scriptures opened, and opened by Christs key; Is not my word like a fire? saith the Lord, Jer. 23. 15. Yea, in Christs baptizing there is fire. John baptizeth with water, and no more, as a cold and watry seal; but Christ, Matth. •. 11. batizeth with the holy Ghost and with fire. The word ⟨p. 248⟩of prophesie was in Jeremiahs bowels,1 as a fire shut up; and this is the fift difference betwixt the literal and spiritual heat; the heavenly heart-burning goes along with the Scriptures. 2. With the Scriptures so opened and applied by the spirit of Jesus as by a strong power, burning coals are cast into the heart. As touching the former, the difference betwixt this and the Libertines spirit, or the Enthusiasts, are to be observed, and the spirit of the children of God.