A92141:1208
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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3. The renewed man may and doth forget that the habit of grace is given to him to trade withal, and for promoving of acts of sanctification; he thinks as Papists do, it's given to be his justification and pardon, and that it may compense his other sins; this I may do because I am a renewed man;1 and the gifts and ca•ings of God are without repentance; and God will dispense with it, I being in a state of grace. But the Scripture saith, 1 Kings 15. 5. David did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, save only in the matter of Uriah the Hittite: and so David's being a man according to Gods heart was no shelter to his shedding of innocent blood. Now grace is not given to the child of God as a piece of overgilded copper to a child to play withal, as if he needed not to trade with it, nor to put it to the bank.
3. The renewed man may and doth forget that the habit of grace is given to him to trade withal, and for promoving of acts of sanctification; he thinks as Papists do, it's given to be his justification and pardon, and that it may compense his other sins; this I may do because I am a renewed man;1 and the gifts and ca•ings of God are without repentance; and God will dispense with it, I being in a state of grace. But the Scripture saith, 1 Kings 15. 5. David did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, save only in the matter of Uriah the Hittite: and so David's being a man according to Gods heart was no shelter to his shedding of innocent blood. Now grace is not given to the child of God as a piece of overguilded copper to a child to play withal, as if he needed not to trade with it, nor to put it to the bank.
- 12. Case. We vainly look tha• the habit of grace is given to be our justification, and that for a dispensation for sin.