A92141:1495
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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4. The actings of God in all created effects, especially his influences of grace are let out immediately,1 both immediatione virtutis, & immediatione suppositi, by immediate concurring of his power and virtue, and by the personal (as it were) concurrence of himself, so the Lord works not in us to will and to do by a Deputy or Lieutenant, as a King rules and governs another Kingdom, not by himself in person, but by a Deputy, who represents ⟨p. 134⟩his person; and Princes being far distant, the sea intervening, transact matters of peace and war with other Princes and States, by their Ambassadors and Legates whom they send.
4. The actings of God in all created effects, especially his influences of grace are letten out immediately,1 both immediatione virtutis, & immediatione suppositi, by immeate concurring of his power and vertue, and by the personal (as it were) concurrence of himself, so the Lord works not in us to will and to doe by a Deputy or Lieutenant, as a King rules and governs another Kingdome, not by himself in person, but by a Deputy, who represents ⟨p. 134⟩his person; and Princes being far distant, the sea intervening, transact matters of peace and warre with other Princes and States, by their Ambassadors and Legates whom they send.
- 1God acts in all both by the immediate influence of his power, and of his person.God acts in all both by the immediate influence of his power, and of his pe•son.
For God is said to be with Moses mouth, not only giving him eloquence, and a tongue, but the Lord spoke in him to Pharaoh,