A92141:932
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. 4. The motions of the Spirit (to come to the renewed mans case) serve as legs to bear the cripple-man, but not as eyes; for Psalm 119. 105. Thy word is a lamp to my feet, and light to my path. Yea, a doubt it is if the motions ⟨p. 276⟩of the Spirit,1 as the Spirit without the word, lay an obligation on us to follow these motions, except when the Spirit speaks to Paul and Barnabas to go to Macedonia, not to Bithynia; and then the word of the Spirit becomes formally the word of the Lord, as the word of Christ from his mouth is the word of God: but heed is to be taken in a special manner, when the bastard spirit speaks to Becold, to Hichol, and such wizards; for God speaks like God, and his own know his voice, and the children of the Devil know also their fathers voice; learn to go as far as you can in the way to Christ.
Assert. 4. The motions of the Spirit (to come to the renewed mans case) serve as legs to bear the criple-man, but not as eyes; for Psalm 119. 105. Thy word is a lamp to my feet, and light to my path. Yea, a doubt it is if the motions ⟨p. 276⟩of the Spirit,1 as the Spirit without the word, lay an obligation on us to follow these motions, except when the Spirit speaks to Paul and Barnabas to go to Macedonia, not to Bythinia; and then the word of the Spirit becomes formally the word of the Lord, as the word of Christ from his mouth is the word of God: but heed is to be taken in a special manner, when the bastard spirit speaks to Becold, to Hichol, and such wizards; for God speaks like God, and his own know his voice, and the children of the Divel know also their fathers voice; learn to go as far as you can in the way to Christ.
- 1The Spirit as the Spirit lays no obligation on us, but to move in Scriptural duties.