A92141:854
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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3. Its a work of the spirit strongly to convince the conscience of not believing in Christ, John 16. 7, 8. now to believe in him is the sum of the Scriptures, of the Gospel. Enthusiasts extol persuasions by raptures, according to which the brother killeth the brother, as Bullinger relates, in place of the Scripture-convictions of the spirit.
3. Its a work of the spirit strongly to convince the conscience of not believing in Christ, John 16. 7, 8. now to believe in him is the sum of the Scriptures, of the Gospel. Enthusiasts extol perswasions by raptures, according to which the brother killeth the brother, as Bullinger relates, in place of the Scripture-convictions of the spirit.
4. The work of the spirit is to comfort, for its the spirits office; and the sound comfort is patience and comfort of the Scriptures bringing hope, Rom. 15. 4. The spirit of Enthusiasts persuades men of peace and comfort without and beside the promises of the Gospel.
4. The work of the spirit is to comfort, for its the spirits office; and the sound comfort is patience and comfort of the Scriptures bringing hope, Rom. 15. 4. The spirit of Enthusiasts perswades men of peace and comfort without and beside the promises of the Gospel.