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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
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8. The true spirit leads unto all truth, John 16. 13 and opens the true sense of the Scriptures, and leads no man by a new wild-fire light; nor doth the spirit of God sway and determine a topic conjectural way, while there is a speculative doubting as touching any light from Scripture, whether the course be lawful or warranted by the word or not: for the spirit of God leads by Scriptures infallibility, Isa. 59. 20, 21.
8. The true spirit leads unto all truth, John 16. 13 and opens the true sense of the Scriptures, and leads no man by a new wild-fire light; nor doth the spirit of God sway and determin a topick conjectural way, while there is a speculative doubting as touching any light from Scripture, whether the course be lawful or warranted by the word or not: for the spirit of God leads by Scriptures infallibility, Isa. 59. 20, 21.
9. The actings of the true spirit are gentle, civil, human, and he bids us follow whatsoever is of good report—whatsoever things are pure, Phil. 4. 8, 9. The spirit of Enthusiasts, leaving Scripture, licences men to abominations which Heathens abhor.
10. The actings of the spirit of Christ are seasonable, Matth. 10. 19. in that hour it shall be given you; it is not ye that speak, but the spirit of your Father speaks in you. Enthusiasts spirit suggests night-works to be done in day light, and many unseasonable actions contrary to godly prudence, as to read godly Treatises when they should hear the Word preached; the spirit that suggesteth this is not of God, for the spirit of God cannot counter-work himself.