A92141:946
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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2. Nor are we to judge of our selves according to our ebbing and deadness of disposition, that we shall ever again believe. Saith the doubting soul, Shall I ever again see the beauty and glory of his power, as sometimes I did in the Sanctuary? Psal. 63. The birds reason not so; they say not in winter, shall ever the Spring and the season of building our nests come again? shall birds ever have Summer-singing again? And we are ready to make a weapon-show of grace when the heart is enlarged; I'll do wonders: as if the man were the Father who begat grace, and the Lord of his own believing; as some believe the horses swiftness is the swiftness of the rider. Be humble, and pull down the sail when the heart is enlarged.
2. Nor are we to judge of our selves according to our ebbing and deadness of disposition, that we shall ever again believe. Saith the doubting soul, Shall I ever again see the beauty and glory of his power, as sometimes I did in the Sanctuary? Psal. 63. The birds reason not so; they say not in winter, shall ever the Spring and the season of building our nests come again? shall birds ever have Summer-singing again? And we are ready to make a weapon-shew of grace when the heart is enlarged; I'le doe wonders: as if the man were the Father who begat grace, and the Lord of his own believing; as some believe the horses swiftness is the swiftness of the rider. Be humble, and pull down the sail when the heart is enlarged.
Prop. 2. See in the Text enlargedness of heart and running are near of kindred and blood. The disposition and ⟨p. 281⟩the gracious acting by divine influences are near other, as the powder and flamings, the dry timber and the warm hearth-stone, to receive flamings. There is a near disposition in the Embryo, in the framed mass of the birth, to receive by the Creators influences a living soul,