A92141:1161
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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2. The Lord forbids rather, and rebukes such an use of means, as includes sinful defects in the principles, manner and end. Psalm. 50. 16. But unto the wicked God saith, What hast thou to do to declare my statutes? Isa. 1. 12. Who required ⟨p. 329⟩this thing at your hand, that ye should tread in my Courts in the way and manner that you do. So Christ rebukes the Pharisees praying and alms-giving with the blowing of a trumpet in so doing, and shows them they have no reward for such works, Matth. 6. 1, 2, 3. therefore there was no reward promised to such works.
2. The Lord forbids rather, and rebukes such an use of means, as includes sinful defects in the principles, manner and end. Psalm. 50. 16. But unto the wicked God saith, What hast thou to do to declare my statutes? Isa. 1. 12. Who required ⟨p. 329⟩this thing at your hand, that ye should tread in my Courts in the way and manner that you do. So Christ rebukes the Pharisees praying and alms-giving with the blowing of a trumpet in so doing, and shews them they have no reward for such works, Matth. 6. 1, 2, 3. therefore there was no reward promised to such works.
3. Hypocrites, as touching the manner of their doing, do counterwork their own work as touching the substance of the duty commanded: vain-glory, hypocrisy-like poison, and death in the pot pollutes the action as Ink and mire vitiates a cup of wine being mixed therewith; better it is comparative to do something of the bulk of the duty, then wholly to omit it, and do nothing less or more.