A92141:902
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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Assert. 2. A believer under the sense of mercy and deliverance, is to engage his soul to praise. David delivered in the cave, Psal. 58. 7. I will sing and praise. Psal. 30. Thou hast turned from me my mourning into dancing. v. 12. O Lord my God, I will give thanks to thee for ever. Psal. 116. 8. Thou hast delivered my soul from death. 9. I will walk before the Lord in the land of the living, out of the sense of the Lords goodness to all. Psa. 104. 33. I shall sing unto the Lord in my lives, or as long as I live. Psal. 63. 3. Because thy loving kindness is better then life, my lips shall praise thee, thus will I bless thee while I live. Heb. in my lives.
Assert. 13. The man Christ may absolutely undertake, Psal. 22. 22. I will declare thy name unto thy brethren, I will praise thee in the midst of the congregation. For he knows perfectly, he neither can sin, or come short of his vow; nor can the Lord withdraw influences of grace from the man Christ; but Peter had no assurance that under that particular temptation the Lord should not forsake him. The general, all the renewed have, that the Lord will not suffer his own to be tempted above their strength: Peter was obliged to watch and pray under all the particular temptations that could occur, and especially under the trial of his suffering Saviour, of which he was fore-warned by the mouth of Christ, from that Prophecy Zech. 13. 7. I will smite the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock shall be scattered.