A92141:883
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.
1. He complains of his soul cleaving to the dust, of his soul dropping away for heaviness.
1. He complaines of his soul cleaving to the dust, of his soul dropping away for heaviness.
2. He frequently seeks from God teaching, quickening, enlightening; which saith that some deadness, darkness, and narrowness of heart was on.1 He who is nearest heaven, and is (as it were) all prayer, misses many things. Psal. 119. 11. Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I may not sin against thee. He must then be well instructed, when the word is hid in his heart; yet saith he v. 12. Teach me thy statutes. v. 14. I have rejoiced in the way of thy testimonies, as much as in all riches. 24. Thy testimonies also are my delight and my counsellors. 30. I have chosen the way of truth; thy judgments have I laid before me. 31. I have stuck unto thy testimonies. What wants David then that a glorified and perfected man hath? yes, he wants more enlargedness of heart, v. 32. he wants more of Gods teaching, v. 33. Teach me, O Lord, the way of thy statues. He wants a bowed heart to the Law, 36. Incline my heart unto thy testimonies. He wants more life and spiritual vigorousness, 37. Quicken thou me in thy way. Begging and suiting supposeth need and want, at least a want of the degrees of grace. How sweet is it to be rich in missing and feeling of wants! and that is the dangerous state of Laodicea, Rev. 3. 17. I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing.
2. He frequently seeks from God teaching, quickening, enlightning; which saith that some deadness, darkness, and narrowness of heart was on.1 He who is nearest heaven, and is (as it were) all prayer, misses many things.