A92141:922
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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CHAP. VIII.
Q. 4. Is there no running except God enlarge the heart? what then can we do?
Assert. 1. Without some enlargement of heart there is no running; the negative is true, none come to Christ except such as the father draws, John 6. 44. John 15. 5. and the affirmative is true, all that are drawn, and have heard and learned of the Father, do run and come apace, Cant. 1. 4. John 6. 44. There is a spiritual riches in heavenly and spiritual suppositions. O for more of Christ to earn his praises with a shout which might waken Angels and Men, all men in this side and in the other side of the Sun, and that all creatures might hear and put to their seal, and cry Amen to the Psalm.
ASsert. 1. Without some enlargement of heart there is no running; the negative is true, none come to Christ except such as the father draws, John 6. 44. John 15. 5. and the affirmative is true, all that are drawn, and have heard and learned of the Father, do run and come apace,