A92141:1101
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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Answ. It is a doubt and a great one, whether with alike submission we are to pray for that which is bonum honestum, and a gracious duty, as we are to pray for bonum jucundum, that which is pleasant, or the reward of a duty: Hence the question, Whether it be lawful to pray for saving influences of grace, and how far, whether conditionally or absolutely? Hence the first Assertion.
Assert. 1. Whatever the clay suites from the potter, it should be suited,
1. With that general submission, or rather subjection, which all creatures as creatures owe to their Creator:1 Hence the clay cannot contradict the potter, though but a sinful man, and say, why hast thou made me thus? Rom. 9. 20.
- 1How we may pray for gracious influences.
2. A negative submission is far required, as the contrary, ⟨p. 317⟩