A92141:955
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. There is an enlargement of heart in loving Christ, and in the experimental knowing and feeling thereof, and in godly fear and joy, Eph. 4. 19. Paul prays that the Ephesians may comprehend the love in all the dimensions of it, That ye may be able to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye may be filled, not that it may be in you, but be filled 2. with fullness, that is a wide fill. 3. with the fullness of God, that is yet wider. 4. with all the fullness of God: and then follow influences above the prayers of the godly, v. 20. He is able to do exceeding abundantly above all we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us. Of the latter, Isa. 60. 5. when the Gentiles shall be brought in to the Church, Thou shalt see and flow together, thine heart shall fear and be enlarged. And hence wideness of heart in acting, the Church shall willingly receive them, and with joy also, and hold open their gates night and day, v. 11. and influences of grace and glory shall so be rained on the Church, that her Sun shall no more go down, nor her Moon withdraw it self. v. 20. All her people shall be righteous. 21. A little one shall become a thousand, and a small one ⟨p. 284⟩a strong nation. Nor shall they be weary in running, Psal. 92. 14. They shall still bring forth fruit in old age, they shall be fat and flourishing. The oil burns, and the oil grows; for Isa. 40. 31. They shall run, and not be weary. A glimmering of news come that Christ is risen, and John and Peter try their speed, who shall be first at the grave; and Magdalen outruns both, and seeks with tears, and stays about the grave until she find her Lord.
3. There is an enlargement of heart in loving Christ, and in the experimental knowing and feeling thereof, and in godly fear and joy, Eph. 4. 19. Paul prays that the Ephesians may comprehend the love in all the dimensions of it, That ye may be able to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye may be filled, not that it may be in you, but be filled 2. with fulness, that is a wide fill. 3. with the fulness of God, that is yet wider. 4. with all the fulness of God: and then follow influences above the prayers of the godly, v. 20. He is able to doe exceeding abundantly above all we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us. Of the latter,