A92141:952
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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3. The wisdom of Angels is large. Hence that (wise as an Angel of God) and also the fullness of God in their affections teacheth us that wideness of heart is outed in continual acting,1 and so in multiplied breathings of God: and Angels do not walk and run only, but fly with wings, cheerfully to do the Lords will: and what influences must be there, when each having six wings, they cease not night nor day to cry one to another, Holy, holy, holy, Lord God of hosts, Almighty, which was, and which is to come, the whole earth is filled with his glory, Rev. 48. Isa. 6. 3.
3. The wisedome of Angels is large. Hence that (wise as an Angel of God) and also the fulness of God in their affections teacheth us that wideness of heart is outed in continual acting,1 and so in multiplied breathings of God: and Angels doe not walk and run onely, but fly with wings, cheerfully to doe the Lords will: and what influences must be there, when each having six wings, they cease not night nor day to cry one to another, Holy, holy, holy, Lord God of hosts, Almighty, which was, and which is to come, the whole earth is filled with his glory, Rev. 48. Isa. 6. 3.
- 1Influences on Angels and the glorified ones.
4. The glorified see him face to face (that is wideness of heart) and they serve him night and day, and weary not, Rev. 14. 2, 3, 4. Rev. 7. 9.