A92141:1221
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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4. Why doth not Mr. Baxter say right down, tacienti quod in se est Deus non denegat gratiam? The Lord hath made the covenant of grace with all mankind, Americans, Brazilians, with these of China, and it hath these two halves: 1. Do and live the life of grace and of faith. 2. Do and live the life of glory. So that the Gospel and pardon, and the life of grace are promised to the Americans, so they trade well with nature, or a general grace of Christ crucified, they know not whom, and they never heard of; show such a covenant made in Scripture, and made with the Brazilians.
4. Why doth not Mr. Baxter say right down, tacienti quod in se est Deus non denegat gratiam? The Lord hath made the covenant of grace with all mankind, Americans, Brasilians, with these of Chinah, and it hath these two halfs: 1. Do and live the life of grace and of faith. 2. Do and live the life of glory. So that the Gospel and pardon, and the life of grace are promised to the Americans, so they trade well with nature, or a general grace of Christ crucified, they know not whom, and they never heard of; shew such a covenant made in Scripture, and made with the Brasilians.
It's true, the Scripture saith, repent for remission, and repent, that your sins may be blotted out, Acts 2. 37, 38. Acts 3. 19. But truth suffers here. Antinomians to exclude strict walking, make repentance to be nothing but faith. So Mr. Den, Hobson. &c. Again, Socinians, and Mr. Baxter, a man of a strong wit, on the other extreme to exclude the loose faith of many, make Gospel-faith to be nothing but repentance and new obedience. But the place Acts 2. can no more prove that repentance, and a fixed walk in good works, is such a part of the new Covenant, as this, do and live the life of faith, and be pardoned, then that Baptism, which is in the text joined with repentance, is necessarily required before pardon; whereas both repentance, faith, baptism, new obedience, are the way to the possession of the crown; not causes, not the price, not the ransom of the right and title to the crown, and both as conditions of pardon and title to the crown and the place.