A92141:896
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. Keep near communion with God; keep the vessel free of leaking, and of under water; sin weakens faith, and saddens the spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is there is liberty, 2 Cor. 3.
4. Improve much faith. Frequent believing shall come up to full assurance, and that makes strong and bold knocking: for a Son who hath right to come where his own flesh is within the veil, is vigorous; the servants knock is weak; unbelief knocks faintly. Yet mistake not heaviness, as if it were unbelief; Christ had much heaviness, even to death,1 in his suffering, but no weakness of faith. But Matth. 26. these, O my Father, O my Father; as that also, my God, my God, speak strong faith, much enlargement in his heaviest case. These four being observed, influences are near.
4. Improve much faith. Frequent believing shall come up to full assurance, and that makes strong and bold knocking: for a Son who hath right to come where his own flesh is within the vail, is vigorous; the servants knock is weak; unbelief knocks faintly. Yet mistake not heaviness, as if it were unbelief; Christ had much heaviness, even to death,1 in his suffering, but no weaknesse of faith. But Matth. 26. these, O my Father, O my Father; as that also, my God, my God, speak strong faith, much enlargement in his heaviest case. These four being observed, influences are near.
- 1Every heaviness is not weakness of faith.