A92141:1165
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. Nature hath no power of getting supernatural gifts by the strength of nature; but nature hath a capacity, not such an actual desire, which supposeth use of reason ⟨p. 330⟩and discourse to supernatural happiness;1 a capacity is an inclination to that which may perfect it; so man intends or inclines toward God, and is unquiet while he find him: but it's to abuse all Grammar to call a natural capacity an inbred appetite, and natural desire.
Answ. Nature hath no power of getting supernatural gifts by the strength of nature; but nature hath a capacity, not such an actual desire, which supposeth use of reason ⟨p. 330⟩and discourse to supernatural happiness;1 a capacity is an inclination to that which may perfect it; so man intends or enclines toward God, and is unquiet while he find him: but it's to abuse all Grammer to call a natural capacity an inbred appetite, and natural desire.
- 1Nature and Grace.
2.1 Whether grace be above the disposition of nature?
- 1Whether grace be above the disposition of nature?