A92141:1181
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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Now if the natural man cannot know nor discern the ⟨p. 332⟩things of God,1 but judges them foolishness 1 Cor. 2. 13, 14. If his wisdom be enmity against God, and is neither subject to the Law of God, neither indeed can be, Rom. 8. 7. If there be a necessity of the Spirit of revelation, that the eyes of the understanding being enlightened he may know what is the hope of his calling, and what is the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the Saints, and what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe, Eph. 1. 17, 18, 19, 20. And if as touching the will and the affections, he be wicked in all the frame and imaginations of the heart, Gen. 6. 5. Gen. 8, 21. Jer. 17. 9. Ezech. 36. 26. Ezech. 11. 19, 20. and that he cannot believe or come to Christ mediately or immediately except it were given him of God, John 6. 65. Phil. 1. 29. 1. Act. 5. 31. 2 Tim. 2. 25. and except the Father draw him, Joh. 6. 44, 45. Eph. 2. 1, 2, 3, 4