A92141:1460
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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In the first moment of conversion the sinner prevents not Christ: none dead in sins and trespasses ever sent, or could send to heaven for the spirit, and the influences of grace. The Lord comes unsent for, and here is found of them who never sought him, Isa. 65. 1.
For as touching the Lords first love-visit, when he comes upon the sinner dying in his blood, in the infusion of the life of Christ, there is no treaty, no communing betwixt the foundling dying in the open field and Christ. For
1. Our consent is not sought to the first Creation, nor yet to the second, the Lord does not (as it were) parley, nor ask the question at the thirsty wilderness, Shall I pour water on thee, and floods of rain? house of David, will ye yield your consent and good will, 1that I pour upon you the spirit of grace and of supplication? For the formal infusion of a new heart is not done by moral acting in that point of dispensation.
1. Our consent is not sought to the first Creation, nor yet to the second, the Lord does not (as it were) parly, nor ask the question at the thirsty wilderness, Shall I pour water on thee, and flouds of rain? house of David, will ye yield your consent and good will, 1that I pour upon you the spirit of grace and of supplication? For the formal infusion of a new heart is not done by moral acting in that point of dispensation.
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