A92141:1188
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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5.1 Nor should the glory of conversion be due to the grace of God, but to our well-guiding free-will, and to the works of righteousness; that we had done contrary to 2 Tim. 1. 9. Tit. 3. 3. Eph. 2. 4, 5. if we could procure by our good endeavours our own conversion.
5.1 Nor should the glory of conversion be due to the grace of God, but to our well-guiding free-will, and to the works of righteousnesse; that we had done contrary to 2 Tim. 1. 9. Tit. 3. 3. Eph. 2. 4, 5. if we could procure by our good endeavours our own conversion.
- 1The Gospel-promise, or Gospel-threatening of sending or denying the Gospel to Pagans, who act or who omit such previous performances is an unwritten tradition. Sinners under the fall of Adam are now enterdited heirs and declared Idiots, not worthy of the trust of grace.The Gospel-promise, or Gospel-threatning of sending or denying the Gospel to Pagans, who act or who omit such previous performances is an unwritten tradition. Sinners under the fall of Adam are now enterdited heirs and declared Idiots, not worthy of the trust of grace.
6. But so much the man fallen in sin is under the state of enterditement; as the eldest Son of a King, who is a fool, is declared an idiot, and the government not committed to him. In the Gospel the Lord hath declared man a simple fool, and laid the Princedom of grace and glory upon the Catholic Tutor and chief heir Christ Jesus; yet we fools will needs be Masters and Free-men before we have served our apprenticeships. Gladly would we be from under the dominion of Christ and free grace, and be our own; yea even fools and mad men take it not well to be fettered and in bands.