A92141:1229
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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5. How can this promise be so wide and general, as none are excepted? for either Christ dyed not for Infants, and so no Infants are redeemed, nor washed in the blood of Christ, no Infants are part of the world or mankind, or Infants are condemned for not actual accepting of Christ and life, and for wilful and remediless rejecting of Christ, because they will not come to Christ and drink; as Rev. 22. 17.
5. How can this promise be so wide and general, as none are excepted? for either Christ dyed not for Infants, and so no Infants are redeemed, nor washed in the blood of Christ, no Infants are part of the world or mankind, or Infants are condemned for not actual accepting of Christ and life, and for wilful and remedilesse rejecting of Christ, because they will not come to Christ and drink; as Rev. 22. 17.
6. If whosoever will have Christ may have him, Brazilians and Indians, and grace be universal, as saith Mr. Baxter; Brazilians and all Mankind must be freeholders, and sovereigns of Heaven and Hell, of the Decrees of Election and Reprobation, of Effectual calling: it must then be in him that runs and wills, and not in God who shows mercy; nor doth the Lord have mercy on whom he will: It's but a mock to say, that God's special grace doth make men willing; for Americans and Brazilians are Lords, having in their power both general and special grace; except Mr. Baxter yield to us a grace which doth predetermine or indec•inably bow, fix and set the free will the way the Lord decrees, and that the Lord must infuse a new supernatural power, and it is above us to have special saving grace, and that the Lord bestows on his chosen, because he hath freely chosen them; and then the matter is not in their, may have, or may not have.
6. If whosoever will have Christ may have him, Brasilians and Indians, and grace be universal, as saith Mr. Baxter; Brasilians and all Mankind must be freeholders, and soveraigns of Heaven and Hell, of the Decrees of Election and Reprobation, of Effectual calling: it must then be in him that runs and wills, and not in God who shews mercy; nor doth the Lord have mercy on whom he will: It's but a mock to say, that God's speciall grace doth make men willing; for Americans and Brasilians are Lords, having in their power both general and special grace; except Mr. Baxter yield to us a grace which doth predetermine or indecinably bow, fix and set the free will the way the Lord decrees, and that the Lord must infuse a new supernatural power, and it is above us to have special saving grace, and that the Lord bestows on his chosen, because he hath freely chosen them; and then the matter is not in their, may have, or may not have.