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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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The Lord must be displeased with our narrowness. How little a portion of him do we see? We are not straitened in the Lords heart, but in our selves: He calls for wider hearts, Open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it, Psal. 81. 10. not the mouth, but the heart: our narrow heart, and narrow faith, is like the little hand of the child, who hath not fingers to hold the large and great apple.
The Lord must be displeased with our narrowness. How little a portion of him doe we see? We are not straitned in the Lords heart, but in our selves: He calls for wider hearts, Open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it, Psal. 81. 10. not the mouth, but the heart: our narrow heart, and narrow faith, is like the little hand of the child, who hath not fingers to hold the large and great apple.
2.1 The fool wants a heart, Hos. 7. 11. Prov. 9. 4. Then must the fools of this world know little of an enlarged and wide heart, as little as the horse or the mule that hath not the understanding of a man; nor have they the heart of the new man. Speak to the natural men of the fatness of the Lords house, of all the fullness of God, and the showers of influences of grace, of the anointing of all wisdom, and ye speak to new weaned children.
2.1 The fool wants a heart, Hos. 7. 11. Prov. 9. 4. Then must the fooles of this world know little of an enlarged and wide heart, as little as the horse or the mule that hath not the understanding of a man; nor have they the heart of the new man. Speak to the natural men of the fatness of the Lords house, of all the fulness of God, and the showers of influences of grace, of the anointing of all wisedom, and ye speak to new weaned children.