A92141:996
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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3. It notes a fierceness and a strong flaming of the affection, and a sort of violence of assenting to the influences of grace which brought on that holy disposition; which teacheth us when holy dispositions offer a divine violence to the soul to join our violence to his violence: we will run, that is our violence; Draw me, that is his violence. Psalm 119. 32. I will run the way of thy commandments, and press my self to willing and hot obedience if thou shall, or when thou shall, enlarge my heart.
3. It notes a fiercenesse and a strong flaming of the affection, and a sort of violence of assenting to the influences of grace which brought on that holy disposition; which teacheth us when holy dispositions offer a divine violence to the soul to joyn our violence to his violence: we will run, that is our violence; Draw me, that is his violence. Psalm 119. 32. I will run the way of thy commandments, and press my self to willing and hot obedience if thou shall, or when thou shall, enlarge my heart.
2. To this purpose we are to meet his actings of love, Cant. 1. 4. The King brought me into his chambers, with extolling and praising his love: we will be glad and rejoice in thee; we will remember thy love more then wine; the upright love thee.
2. To this purpose we are to meet his actings of love, Cant. 1. 4. The King brought me into his chambers, with extolling and praising his love: we will be glad and rejoyce in thee; we will remember thy love more then wine; the upright love thee.