A92141:1476
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. He who with mans free-will doth insuperably produce the effect by his alone and only physical and real motion, and no other way, as the Lord causeth the Sun ⟨p. 431⟩to rise and go down, and the fire to give heat, •e doth or must do violence to mans free-will. True. But now the Assumption is false; for the Lord doth not so and by such an only physical motion insuperably produce the effect.
Answ. He who with mans free-will doth insuperably produce the effect by his alone and only physical and real motion, and no other way, as the Lord causeth the Sun ⟨p. 431⟩to rise and goe down, and the fire to give heat, •e doth or must doe violence to mans free-will. True. But now the Assumption is false; for the Lord doth not so and by such an only physical motion insuperably produce the effect.
He who with mans free-will does insuperably produce the effect, with both an insuperable, physical, and real motion, and also with a moral, persuasive, and legal motion, flowing from a command, he must do violence to mans free-will.
He who with mans free-will does insuperably produce the effect, with both an insuperable, physical, and real motion, and also with a moral, perswasive, and legal motion, flowing from a command, he must doe violence to mans free-will.
This is most untrue; for the physical and moral influences of God, though both be insuperable, yet neither the one exceeds the other in degrees of necessity, nor do they both jointly exceed the necessity which free-will will impose on itself.