A92141:1187
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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4. All Gospel-promises and all Gospel-threatenings are revealed in the Old and New Testament as well as the Gospel it self, and the Gospel-commandment; for an unwritten Law and Gospel binds not us. But neither in Old or New Testament is there such a promise. The nation and the person that doth such things shall be rewarded with the blessing of the preached Gospel. Nor is there any such threatening ⟨p. 335⟩that the nation or person that commit such sins, and omit such duties, shall be punished with the want of the preached Gospel for ever, and with the want of faith and repentance: only the latter suffers an exception in persons that sin against the holy Ghost: for of Nations that sin, and that before they hear the Gospel, we read not. It's true, the word of the Kingdom for great sins may be removed, Zech. 11. 5, 6, 8, 9. v. 12, 13, 14. Amos 8. 4, 5, 6. v. 11, 12. Matth. 21. 33, 34, 35, 41, 42, 43. Acts 13. 44, 45, 46, 47. Rev. 2. 5. But that proves nothing, it's because the elect in that place do fail, and there be not any chosen thereto called.
4. All Gospel-promises and all Gospel-threatnings are revealed in the Old and New Testament as well as the Gospel it self, and the Gospel-commandment; for an unwritten Law and Gospel binds not us. But neither in Old or New Testament is there such a promise. The nation and the person that doth such things shall be rewarded with the blessing of the preached Gospel. Nor is there any such threatning ⟨p. 335⟩that the nation or person that commit such sinnes, and omit such duties, shall be punished with the want of the preached Gospel for ever, and with the want of faith and repentance: only the latter suffers an exception in persons that sin against the holy Ghost: for of Nations that sin, and that before they hear the Gospel, we read not. It's true, the word of the Kingdome for great sins may be removed,