A92141:975
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.
Q. What shall beget a holy disposition to pray?
A. Praying begets a holy disposition to pray. When David goes up the mount of Olives, fleeing from Absalom, he weeps and prays, Psal. 3. and that praying begets a fixedness to believe, and a disposition to pray, v. 6. I shall not be afraid of ten thousand of the people, that have set themselves round about me. Psal. 6. he prays, Lord, rebuke me not in thy wrath, have mercy on me; return again, O Lord, deliver my soul. That prayer is heard, and the result is an heavenly disposition to part with wicked men, 6. Depart from me ye workers of iniquity, and a new disposition of assurance, The Lord hath heard the voice of my weeping. And assurance that God heard the man, is a new seed of praying to him again, Psal. 116. 3, 4, 5, 6. Psal. 18. 3, 4, 5, 6. So Psal. 31. after complaints and heavenly petitions, v. 4. Pull me out of the net. 19. Have mercy upon me, O Lord—make thy face to shine upon thy servant, &c. follow heavenly dispositions.
A. Praying begets a holy disposition to pray. When David goes up the mount of Olives, fleeing from Absolom, he weeps and prayes, Psal. 3. and that praying begets a fixedness to believe, and a disposition to pray, v. 6. I shall not be afraid of ten thousand of the people, that have set themselves round about me. Psal. 6. he prayes, Lord, rebuke me not in thy wrath, have mercy on me; return again, O Lord, deliver my soul. That prayer is heard, and the result is an heavenly disposition to part with wicked men, 6. Depart from me ye workers of iniquity, and a new disposition of assurance, The Lord hath heard the voice of my weeping. And assurance that God heard the man, is a new seed of praying to him again,