A92141:890
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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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, Isa. 2. 7. and when he waters not, there is a drying up.
5. The Lord out of the depth of holy soveraignty withdrawes 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, Isa. 2. 7. and when he waters not, there is a drying up.
6. Neglect of praying and fetching enlargement from the fountain may straiten, as appears from Pauls suiting of the prayers of the Lords people, that God would grant him a door of utterance with holy liberty to preach the mystery of the Gospel, Eph. 6. 19. Col. 4. 3. For much of the anointing there is in the man Christ, that draws wondering at the gracious word spoken by Christ, Luke 4. 18, 22. See also the Churches prayer, Acts 4. 29. For it is a grant of grace to speak with enlargement.