A92141:1166
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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Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
2.1 Whether grace be above the disposition of nature?
- 1Whether grace be above the disposition of nature?
Answ. This receives the same answer almost: the habit of sin by which a man is dead in sin, Eph. 2. cannot consist with a sweet disposition of nature to get grace; the same wine cannot be both sweet and sour; nor is there any sweetness in sour and bitter or unrenewed nature.
3.1 Whether the grace of God be above the impetration, purchase and prayers of nature?
- 1Whether grace be above natures prayers?
Answ. The Scripture teacheth us of no prayers by natures help, but by the Spirit interceding in the Saints,