A92141:1182
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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Why should the Masters of general grace tell us that Christ enlightens every man that comes in the world? Joh. 1. 9. for men enlightened by Christ the true light, are no more blind then seeing men, and because this is actual illumination, give us a place of Scripture where it is said, that all the Brazilians, Indians, and other Gentiles are actually illuminated by Christ the true light even from the womb. If from the womb,1 when was that true Eph. 5. 8. Sometimes ye were darkness, but now ye are light in the Lord? for such as are actually illuminated by Christ were never darkened: for the actual illumination denominates men as truly as the morning light names the air lightsome. And when did the Ephesians and other Gentiles walk in the vanity of their minds? having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God, through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart? And if Christ shall destroy in this mountain the face of the covering cast over all people, and the veil that is spread over all nations, Isa. 25. 7. then there is such a covering and veil over all faces: and if people be blind in darkness, and under the power of Satan, Acts 26. 18. until the preached Gospel open their eyes: If Christ the true light do actually illuminate the Brazilians, Indians, Turks, those of China who never heard the Gospel, is a question.
Why should the Masters of general grace tell us that Christ enlightens every man that comes in the world? Joh. 1. 9. for men enlightned by Christ the true light, are no more blind then seeing men, and because this is actual illumination, give us a place of Scripture where it is said, that all the Brasilians, Indians, and other Gentiles are actually illuminated by Christ the true light even from the womb. If from the womb,1 when was that true