A92141:992
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 second particular is the doubling of the words. In this and in the following words we have divers considerable characters and properties of heavenly dispositions.
1. The doubling noteth the heat and fervour of affection in David, as that My God, my God, notes the heat of faith; two gripes of faith is better then one: so saith the tripling of that prayer,1 O my Father, O my Father, remove this cup, Matth. 26. There is fire in the desire Psalm 57. 1. Be merciful to me, O God, be merciful to me: and twice in this Psalm, v. 5. Be thou exalted, O God, &c. and again v. 11. Be thou exalted, O God, Psalm 46. that is doubled, the Lord of hosts is with us, v. 7, 11. for his mercy endureth for ever, is repeated twenty six times in one Psalm.
- 1The doubling of words or sentences noteth certainty, 2. Addition of assurance, 3. Freeness of affection.
1. In sinners (in Christ it could not be) it notes a sort of distrusting of the Spirit; they will not believe the heart ⟨p. 292⟩at the first word: Not unto us, O Lord; that is not enough, the heart is ready to steal the Lord's glory; therefore he addeth, not unto us, but unto thy name give the glory: therefore the doubling of it speaks the certainty,