A92141:1157
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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CHAP. XII.
What may be done in the using of means, hearing the word by us, to fetch influences, if there be any truth in that, Deus facienti quod in se est non negat gratiam. God denies not grace to the man who does what he can. Whether doth God command all use of means external or internal, in whole and part? 2. Whether grace be above. 1. The desire. 2. The disposition. 3. The prayer. 4. The purchase of nature. 3. No sufficient universal grace is due to Brasilians. 4. Martinez de Ripalda abuseth many Scriptures to prove sufficient grace. 5. No Gospel-promise, no Gospel-threatening in Scripture concerning universal grace. 6. Sinners are now interdicted heirs. 7. The connection betwixt natural and supernatural acting in conversion. 8. Of the natural providence of God Creator, and the supernatural and Redemptory providence of God by which the chosen are converted.
What may be done in the using of means, hearing the word by us, to fetch influences, if there be any truth in that, Deus facienti quod in se est non negat gratiam. God denies not grace to the man who does what he can. Whether doth God command all use of means external or internal, in whole and part? 2. Whether grace be above. 1. The desire. 2. The disposition. 3. The prayer. 4. The purchase of nature. 3. No sufficient universal grace is due to Brasilians. 4. Martinez de Ripalda abuseth many Scriptures to prove sufficient grace. 5. No Gospel-promise, no Gospel-threatning in Scripture concerning universal grace. 6. Sinners are now interdited heirs. 7. The connexion betwixt natural and supernatural acting in conversion. 8. Of the natural providence of God Creator, and the supernatural and Redemptory providence of God by which the chosen are converted.
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