A92141:994
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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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.
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, Gen. 41. 32.
2. It notes that we are to make an eke to our assurance; my heart is fixed, O God; therefore two witnesses are better then one, he says it over again, my heart is fixed; for we shall deny that any such heavenly disposition was in the hour of temptation, and say all is but false work; in so doing he blows the coal when he finds it smoking, and blows twice, and strikes the iron again and again when he finds it hot. So he awakes up tongue and voice, music and harp, gift and grace, to praise the Lord; as when he finds his heart in a praising disposition, he desires an eke of all creatures in heaven and earth, Psalm 103. all the Angels, all his hosts, all his works in all places of his dominion to join with his soul to bless the Lord, v. 20, 21, 22.
2. It notes that we are to make an eik to our assurance; my heart is fixed, O God; therefore two witnesses are better then one, he says it over again, my heart is fixed; for we shall deny that any such heavenly disposition was in the hour of temptation, and say all is but false work; in so doing he blows the coal when he finds it smoaking, and blows twice, and strikes the iron again and again when he finds it hot. So he awakes up tongue and voice, musick and harp, gift and grace, to praise the Lord; as when he finds his heart in a praising disposition, he desires an eik of all creatures in heaven and earth, Psalm 103. all the Angels, all his hosts, all his works in all places of his dominion to joyne with his soule to blesse the Lord, v. 20, 21, 22.