A92141:945
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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Prop. 1. When the soul is widened and stretched out in its actings, we are ready to say, I shall never be moved, Psal. 30. I shall dwell in the house of the Lord for ever, Psal. 23. 6. which though true, when he was banished from the Tabernacle, Psal. 42. Psal. 84. Psal. 63. he had uttered thoughts of his state. Some say, Shall I ever again be dead? Shall I ever again doubt as a down-casting soul? no, I shall believe and hope under temptations to the end. But we are no more to judge of our selves by our present enlargedness, then we are to pass sentence of the multitude of people of a City by a solemn fair or great market, the town is not every day so peopled: nor are we to esteem of a river by its swelling and running over banks after a mighty long continued rain.
Prop. 1. WHen the soul is widened and stretched out in its actings, we are ready to say, I shall never be moved, Psal. 30. I shall dwell in the house of the Lord for ever, Psal. 23. 6. which though true, when he was banished from the Tabernacle, Psal. 42. Psal. 84. Psal. 63. he had uttered thoughts of his state. Some say, Shall I ever again be dead? Shall I ever again doubt as a down-casting soul? no, I shall believe and hope under temptations to the end. But we are no more to judge of our selves by our present enlargedness, then we are to pass sentence of the multitude of people of a City by a solemn fair or great market, the town is not every day so peopled: nor are we to esteem of a river by its swelling and running over banks after a mighty long continued rain.