A92141:1227
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. Can a promise of God never promulgated, never by fame or sound of words reaching the ears of these to whom the promise is made, be either promise or obliging Law? the Lord's will to do good is but a mere decree, never a promise till it be spoken; was there such a thing from eternity as a promise of God to make the world? a decree there was, never a promise. God said never in Old or New Testament, if all the Brazilians, Indians, shall believe in Christ, they are saved: and to them come to age a promise conditional it cannot be; when not only never promulgated, but Apostles and others are expressly forbidden to promulgate it to the Gentiles, Matth. 10. 5. Acts 16. 6. as being no people of God, Lo-ammi, not obtained mercy in Christ, Hos. 1. 10. 1▪ Pet. 3. 10. Rom. 10. 24, 25. and yet for all these Christ died, all these Christ saved conditionally; they are saved, and my people, and I promise to them life in my Son so they believe, but tell them not of it; what a Gospel is this?
3. Can a promise of God never promulgated, never by fame or sound of words reaching the ears of these to whom the promise is made, be either promise or obliging Law? the Lord's will to do good is but a meer decree, never a promise till it be spoken; was there such a thing from eternity as a promise of God to make the world? a decree there was, never a promise. God said never in Old or New Testament, if all the Brasilians, Indians, shall believe in Christ, they are saved: and to them come to age a promise conditional it cannot be; when not only never promulgated, but Apostles and others are expresly forbidden to promulgate it to the Gentiles, Matth. 10. 5. Acts 16. 6. as being no people of God, Lo-ammi, not obtained mercy in Christ, Hos. 1. 10. 1▪ Pet. 3. 10. Rom. 10. 24, 25. and yet for all these Christ died, all these Christ saved conditionally; they are saved, and my people, and I promise to them life in my Son so they believe, but tell them not of it; what a Gospel is this?