A92141:1478
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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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.
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 doe they both joyntly exceed the necessity which free-will will impose on itself.
If any object, He who insuperably moves free-will to act, he doth infer violence to free-will: But God doth insuperably move free-will. Therefore
If any object, He who insuperably moves free-wil to act, he doth infer violence to free-wil: But God doth insuperably move free-will. Therefore
Answ. The proposition is false. 1. The Lord by casting an ague of love-sickness in the soul, moves the free-will of the Spouse, and of the Martyrs to die for Christ, rather then deny him, because love of it self considered as separated from the Lords physical motions on the soul, works upon the will more strongly and insuperably, then many floods upon a fire, and is hard [Greek or Hebrew] as hell, or the place of the dead, and marriage-love is cruel as the grave, Cant. 8. 6. yet love infers no violence to the will.
Answ. The proposition is false. 1. The Lord by casting an ague of love-sickness in the soul, moves the free-wil of the Spouse, and of the Martyrs to die for Christ, rather then deny him, because love of it self considered as separated from the Lords physical motions on the soul, works upon the will more strongly and insuperably, then many floods upon a fire, and is hard as hell, or the place of the dead, and marriage-love is cruel as the grave,