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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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Q. 1What then shall be done to be free of the indisposition of straitening, and so to get influences of enlargement of heart?
Q. 1What then shall be done to be free of the indisposition of straitning, and so to get influences of enlargement of heart?
- 1Rules to be free of straitening and to get enlargement of spirit.Rules to be free of straitning and to get enlargement of spirit.
Answ. 1. Get and entertain large apprehension of God. Who is a rock save our God? Psal. 18. 30, 31. Be principled in the broad apprehensions of Christ, he is altogether lovely, all loves. Cant. 5. 16. A touch of him can save.
2. Rid marches betwixt the Law and grace: some renewed ones must have their by past life and the strict law reconciled; otherwise they but walk in the flesh, and so live (as they imagine) in Law bondage, and are sick of the old diseases, and so weaken their faith. Hence straitening. Thou art under the Law, and having made a bargain with the Law to keep it, thou art in the flesh, thou canst not speak to a strange King in another land, a King of grace, since thou hast fled back again to the old prison; and if thou speak, it is with much straitening and doubting; thou art the Laws man, and not Christs.