A92141:1451
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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CHAP. V.
Some properties of Influences of grace. 1. That they are invincible and irresistible. 2. Of free grace▪ 3. Done by the Lord with a principality of causality. 4. Immediately, both by the immediation of virtue, and of the Lords own presence. Influences are considered. 1. In the first moment of conversion. 2. In perseverance. 2. God seeks not our consent to our first conversion. 3. We are married to Christ before we consent to the marriage. 4. How the Lord determines free-will without offering violence to free▪ will. 5. Gods dominion is equally over free-will and all natural causes. 6. God acts in all, both by the immediate influence of his power, and also of his person. 7. The Lord most particularly leads his own. 8. What is the right missing of Influences. 9. We are more our own by the Law, and less our own by the Gospel. 10. Christs care, and the members care.
Some properties of Influences of grace. 1. That they are invincible and irresistible. 2. Of free grace▪ 3. Done by the Lord with a principality of causality. 4. Immediately, both by the immediation of vertue, and of the Lords own presence. Influences are considered. 1. In the first moment of conversion. 2. In perseverance. 2. God seeks not our consent to our first conversion. 3. We are maried to Christ before we consent to the mariage. 4. How the Lord determines free-wil without offering violence to free▪ wil. 5. Gods dominion is equally over free-wil and all natural causes. 6. God acts in all, both by the immediate influence of his power, and also of his person. 7. The Lord most particularly leads his own. 8. What is the right missing of Influences. 9. We are more our own by the Law, and less our own by the Gospel. 10. Christs care, and the members care.