A92141:1110
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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5. Christ commends praying for the Spirit, Luke 11. 13. Matth. 6. 9. John 16. 23. and James is clear in it, Jam. 16. 6. and therefore he commands also praying for the saving operations of the Spirit and his influences.
Assert. 13. There is a two-fold contradicting of the Lords will. One by way of replying, striving and challenging the Lord as doing unequally. This is condemned in the cited places, Rom. 9. 10. Isa. 45. 9. There is another humble contradicting in the woman of Canaan, Matth. 15. 26, 27. In wrestling Jacob, when the Lord says, Let me go, Gen. 32. 26. In Moses interceding, Exod. 32. 10, 11, 12. Yea when Christ commands the disciples to watch, and in order to watching citeth the Prophecy of Zechariah, c. 13. ⟨p. 318⟩who foretold that the flock should be scattered, and that they should sinfully forsake and deny their Master; he also charges them to contradict that permissive will and decree of God by which it was ordained that the Lord shall withdraw his influences from Peter and the rest of the disciples, that their sinful weakness might appear, therefore suppose the Lord say it's my decree and will to deny influences of grace to us in such particular actings, it's the Lords mind that we should humbly contradict that holy will and desire, and pray in the contrary: nor can the Lord command the reasonable creature to will, or not to desire saving grace; for so the holy Lord should command sin: yea to desire and pray for grace is our duty commanded in the Law, and by Christ,