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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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he who will not hear of the Physician, though he never come within reach of personal communing with him, dies of his disease deservedly, because he contemns the only Physician who can cure him, as well as he who sees the Physicians face, hears his words, and beats back on his face the saving cup which would cure his disease.
he who will not hear of the Physitian, though he never come within reach of personal communing with him, dies of his disease deservedly, because he contemns the only Physitian who can cure him, as well as he who sees the Physitians face, hears his words, and beats back on his face the saving cup which would cure his disease.
Yet withal here we would beware of Mr. Baxter's order of setting repentance and works of new obedience before justification, which is indeed a new covenant of works, meriting the sprinkling of Christs blood and washing in justification, and this blood payeth them back again; for by the merit of Christs blood good works do justify and save.
Yet withal here we would beware of Mr. Baxter's order of setting repentance and works of new obedience before justification, which is indeed a new covenant of works, meriting the sprinkling of Christs blood and washing in justification, and this blood payeth them back again; for by the merit of Christs blood good works do justifie and save.
2.1 How clean walkers in new obedience must men be? w•ashen ere they come near the fountain, redeemed before they be redeemed.
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