A92141:962
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.
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.
2. As also the speaking of it to God, O God my heart is fixed, declares the sincerity of it.
3. The speaking to his tongue to awake it, his calling it his glory, as Psal. 16. 9. My glory rejoiceth, that is, my tongue expresseth joy, is an elegant fiction of a person, as speaking to his soul, Psal. 103. 1. Psal. 116. 7. Psal. 42. 11. and noteth some dullness in tongue and heart to praise God: his bidding his psaltery and harp awake, is also an elegant prosopopoeia; as if the harp could sleep and wake. And there is another figure; the instrument of music is put for the gift of music; he tacitly prayer God to waken up his gift and his grace of music to praise, and that God would awake himself to praise, being under the sense of the Lords deliverance of him, when he fled into the cave for fear of Saul, and the Lord delivered him out of the hand of Saul, and put Sauls life in his reverence.