A92141:889
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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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. How can the poor man pray to a lion, or a terrifying spirit? What weak influences are there in speaking to God covered with a cloud of anger.
4. There is a narrowness that comes from ignorance, until God give spiritual wisedome and largeness of heart, see 1 Kings 4. 29. when we mistake God, and unbelief represents God as a lyon 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. How can the poor man pray to a lyon, or a terrifying spirit? What weak influences are there in speaking to God covered with a cloud of anger.
5. The Lord out of the depth of holy sovereignty withdraws the breathings of the Spirit, and straitens the man, ⟨p. 264⟩that he cannot speak with lively liberty, that he may depend upon the free out-goings of the Spirit: He who waters the garden, waters every plant of the garden every moment,