A92141:947
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. 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, Psal. 38. 1, 2, 3, 4. So in Christ, Psal. 40. the law in the heart, and preaching the Lords righteousness in the great congregations are near other.
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 harth-stone, to receive flamings. There is a near disposition in the Embrio, in the framed mass of the birth, to receive by the Creators influences a living soul, Psal. 38. 1, 2, 3, 4. So in Christ, Psal. 40. the law in the heart, and preaching the Lords righteousness in the great congregations are near other.
2. The enlarged heart is ripened to receive influences and quickening of grave for running. The God of nature, by a sort of necessity, must give influences to the egg so prepared to be a living bird: when the heart is boiling and seething with thoughts of the King, the tongue is the pen of a ready writer. When the heart is fixed, Psal. 57. 7. as if he were master of influences, he humbly out of the abundance of the heart engageth to sing and give praise, I my self will awake early. There is here fire, therefore the Lord shall blow upon his own kindling; no question we may cast water on our own coals. The heart of the two disciples is burning like an oven, while Christ speaks to them by the way,