A92141:1488
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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Obj. Then should the Suns not moving, but standing still in the firmament, be a contravening of the command of God given in the Creation, when he gave to the Sun a power to move.
Answ. No ropes of Logic can draw the conclusion and antecedent together: The Lords command to the Sun is not moral, but natural.
Answ. No ropes of Logick can draw the conclusion and antecedent together: The Lords command to the Sun is not moral, but natural.
2. It's not absolute. The power of moving in the Sun is not to be acted, but according to the sovereignty of God, concurring or not concurring with the Sun, so as the Sun is under only (to speak so) a physical mandate of omnipotency, not under an Ethical, Moral, Legal, or obediential commandment, to move, or to shine, under peril of sin and punishment, as man is, by the holy moral mandate and commandment of God.
2. It's not absolute. The power of moving in the Sun is not to be acted, but according to the soveraignty of God, concurring or not concurring with the Sun, so as the Sun is under onely (to speak so) a physical mandate of omnipotency, not under an Ethical, Moral, Legal, or obediential commandement, to move, or to shine, under peril of sin and punishment, as man is, by the holy moral mandate and commandement of God.