A92141:914
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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Whereas 6. The Gospel bids us pray, and by faith rely on the Lord for influences of grace, and give the glory and praise of the breathings of the Spirit to God.
7. Its against that humble self-denial, and godly trembling, and humble despairing of our own strength that should be in us in our undertakings of obedience.
So an huge deal of pride; 2. want of mortification to self must be lurking in our undertakings.
Assert. 6. Its not lawful to blame the Lord for our sinful omissions,1 for that is to father our sin upon the holy Lord; nor is that Isa. 63. 17. O Lord, why hast thou made us to err from thy ways, and hardened our hearts from thy fear? a complaining against God.
Assert. 6. Its not lawful to blame the Lord for our sinful omissions,1 for that is to father our sin upon the holy Lord; nor is that