A92141:958
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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
CHAP. X.
Of fixedness of heart. 2. Prayer begets an heavenly disposition, and an heavenly disposition again begetteth prayer. 3. Holy acts beget holy acts, and an heavenly disposition begets an holy disposition. 4. The Lord so frames his precepts and his promises, as our actings are suitably required to his influences. 5. These three are to be differenced. 1. The spiritual state. 2. The spiritual temper or constitution. 3. The spiritual condition. 6. The reason of doubling of sentences and words.
Psal. 57. v. 7. My heart is fixed, O God, my heart is fixed; I will sing and give praise. 8. Awake up my glory, awake psaltery and harp: I my self will awake early.
MY heart is fixed. Gen. My heart is prepared, my heart is confirmed, established. The doubling of the word, my heart is confirmed, noteth the vehemency of affection.