A92141:1490
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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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.
Obj. A free cause hath more liberty not to act, or to act, then the Sun hath to give light, and the fire to give heat: Therefore the Lord must have given to free-will a power of nilling and willing, and must tie his influences to await and be ready, concur or not concur, as free-will shall think fit.
Obj. A free cause hath more liberty not to act, or to act, then the Sunne hath to give light, and the fire to give heat: Therefore the Lord must have given to free-will a power of nilling and willing, and must tie his influences to await and be ready, concur or not concur, as free-will shall think fit.
Answ. The free will of Angels or men hath no more freedom and exemption from the dominion of providence, then the Sun or the fire hath, but all causes natural or free, are equally under the Lords dominion.
Answ. The free will of Angels or men hath no more freedome and exemption from the dominion of providence, then the Sun or the fire hath, but all causes natural or free, are equally under the Lords dominion.