A92141:1219
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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2.1 How clean walkers in new obedience must men be? w•ashen ere they come near the fountain, redeemed before they be redeemed.
2.1 How clean walkers in new obedience must men be? w•ashen e're they come neer the fountain, redeemed before they be redeemed.
- 1Mr. Baxter's order of repentance before justification.
3. So must men sweet and repent of their life before they be justified completely, but of half or quarter remission and justification the Scripture is silent: it crushes joy, peace, hope, liberty spiritual, for if men earn not out their repentance, they may and do lose their labour and reward before the third part of the day be ended; ⟨p. 247⟩nor does the man accept Christ as Lord in a naked intention to serve him; for so saving faith includes in its nature an intention of new obedience to God: but a man cannot be said to have his reward of pardon, because he hath wrought his work, or reformed his life only in his intention, or because he intends to work his work, Scripture should here speak.
3. So must men sweet and repent of their life before they be justified compleatly, but of half or quarter remission and justification the Scripture is silent: it crushes joy, peace, hope, liberty spiritual, for if men earn not out their repentance, they may and do lose their labour and reward before the third part of the day be ended; ⟨p. 247⟩nor does the man accept Christ as Lord in a naked intention to serve him; for so saving faith includes in its nature an intention of new obedience to God: but a man cannot be said to have his reward of pardon, because he hath wrought his work, or reformed his life only in his intention, or because he intends to work his work, Scripture should here speak.