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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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CHAP. V.
Whether or not the Lord's withdrawing of his influences and impressions of grace doth acquit and free us of guiltiness? objections removed.
WE are not a little slandered by Jesuits and Arminians, as such who by the device of forbowing and predeterminating influences of grace, do destroy the nature of Free-will and voluntary obedience to God in this Argument.
He who withdraws such an influence and impression of grace, without which the act of obedience is physically impossible, he is the cause of disobedience, and he renders the nonobeyer guiltless and excusable.
But God according to the way of Calvin and his, withdraws such an influence and impression of grace, because without his impression of grace, its impossible physically that the Will can be bowed to obey, it being essentially requisite in the act of obedience. Therefore God must be the cause of disobedience by this, and render the non-obeyer guiltless and excusable.