A92141:863
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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The fourth particular is the subject or seat of burning, and its the heart; did not our hearts burn within us? the heart is the only seat of heavenly burnings; not simply, as the heart of man, which is evil, and only evil by nature in all its out-goings, Gen. 6. 6. Gen. 8. 21. and supplanted and wicked, Jer. 17. 9. But the new heart of man, Ezek. 36. 26, 27. the heart in which the love of God, as a flood, is spread abroad by the holy Ghost, Rom. 5. 5. the heart and soul that loves the beloved Christ, Cant. 3. 1, 2, 3. as for the unrenewed heart it is no more a hearth-stone, or a seat to kindle this fire upon, nor will it burn in this heart, then if you would kindle a fire of coals and fuel and dry timber upon the superfice of the ocean sea; for the heart of the unrenewed man would eat up and quench all this fire; and the spirit does no more give influences for the heavenly burnings in the heart of an unrenewed man, then he gives influences to the water to burn, and cast out flamings as a huge fire doth, or to the midnight darkness to shine as the Moon or Sun: and this is the sixth difference. The renewed heart is only the seat of this fire that comes down from heaven, the natural heart is not capable thereof.
The fourth particular is the subject or seat of burning, and its the heart; did not our hearts burn within us? the heart is the only seat of heavenly burnings; not simply, as the heart of man, which is evil, and only evil by nature in all its out-goings, Gen. 6. 6. Gen. 8. 21. and supplanted and wicked, Jer. 17. 9. But the new heart of man, Ezek. 36. 26, 27