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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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Answ. If God first by order of nature, but in the same moment of time, must stir and bow our souls to holy duties, before our souls can act and stir themselves, then must God domineer over free-will, and make it a mere passive lump in acting it, it's palpably false; For first, by order of nature, though together in order of time, prius tempore, simul natura, the Lord stirs and determines the Sun to rise and go down, Psalm 104. 19, 20. Job 9. 7, 8. Send an East-wind to blow in heaven, and by his power bring a South-wind, Psalm 78. 26. Loose the bands of the wild Ass, and cause him to dwell in the barren wilderness, Job 39. 5, 6. Causes the Hawk, by his wisdom, to stretch his wings toward the North rather then the South, and commands the Eagle to ⟨p. 404⟩mount up at his command, 1and make her nest in the rock, v. 27, 28. And say to the snow be thou on the earth, Job 37. 6. and stir and determine all causes natural before they stir themselves; yet the Sun in moving, the Wind in blowing, the Eagle in flying, the Snow in falling on the earth, are not for that mere patients, or passive lumps in acting, but have their own activity in their motion; the holy Lords dominion over the operations of second causes natural or free, neither strains nor doth violence to the one sort of cause nor to the other, but it belongeth to the perfection of the Lords holy dominion, and perfect providence to master and rule all causes and creatures in being and working.
Answ. If God first by order of nature, but in the same moment of time, must stir and bow our souls to holy duties, before our souls can act and stir themselves, then must God domineer over free-will, and make it a meer passive lump in acting it, it's palpably false; For first, by order of nature, though together in order of time, prius tempore, simul natura, the Lord stirs and determines the Sun to rise and go down,