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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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3.1 Satan may have leave as a feigned Pursuivant to imprison where he hath no Law. What hast thou to do to pray? Is not Joshua ragged, and clothed with filthy garments? And Satan stands before the Angel at his right hand to resist him in praying for Jerusalem; for he is not worthy to pray for himself. But the Lord that hath chosen Jerusalem rebukes him, Zech. 3. 1, 2, 3, 4.
3.1 Satan may have leave as a faingied Pursevant to imprison where he hath no Law. What hast thou to doe to pray? Is not Joshua ragged, and cloathed with filthy garments? And Satan stands before the Angel at his right hand to resist him in praying for Jerusalem; for he is not worthy to pray for himself. But the Lord that hath chosen Jerusalem rebukes him, Zech. 3. 1, 2, 3, 4.
- 1Divers sorts of straitnings.
4. There is a narrowness that comes from ignorance, until God give spiritual wisdom and largeness of heart, see 1 Kings 4. 29. when we mistake God, and unbelief represents God as a lion or a bear, Lam. 3. 10. Isa. 38. 13, and Christ is represented as a terrifying Spirit, not as Christ, Matth. 14. 26. Luke 4. 37