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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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Ans. Every comparison in some thing halteth; he who casts away his coat, is deservedly cold, true, and with deliberate reason and foolishly so doth; and that is false, that no man with deliberate reason refuseth divine influences; For willing or deliberate yielding to the sin, either of omission, or of commission, which is conjoined with the Lord's withdrawing of his influences, is both our formal sinning against the obligation of a command, and a yielding virtual (which is enough to make up guiltiness) to the want of divine influences.
Ans. Every comparison in some thing halteth; he who casts away his coat, is deservedly cold, true, and with deliberate reason and foolishly so doth; and that is false, that no man with deliberate reason refuseth divine influences; For willing or deliberate yielding to the sin, either of omission, or of commission, which is conjoyned with the Lord's withdrawing of his influences, is both our formal sinning against the obligation of a command, and a yielding virtual (which is enough to make up guiltiness) to the want of divine influences.
2. True it is, to have or to want the influence of God, falleth under no command of God laid upon man, as a man is by the law of nature forbidden to cast away his coat in a cold season; but in virtual yielding to have influences of God, conjoined with doing evil, and in virtual yielding to want influences conjoined with other sins of omission or commission, we sin, and so are under a command; as he who refuseth a Staff, or a stronger man to lean upon in going through a water, is guilty of drowning himself.
2. True it is, to have or to want the influence of God, falleth under no command of God laid upon man, as a man is by the law of nature forbidden to cast away his coat in a cold season; but in virtual yielding to have influences of God, conjoyned with doing evil, and in virtual yielding to want influences conjoyned with other sins of omission or commission, we sin, and so are under a command; as he who refuseth a Staff, or a stronger man to lean upon in going thorow a water, is guilty of drowning himself.