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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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5. This is to be considered. There are two sorts of causes:1 on in fieri, another in facto esse. The Creator in a manner is but half a cause: the father begets a son: the carpenter builds a ship: the Mason raises up the frame of a goodly house: But the son lives when the father is dead; the ship sails thousands of miles; and the house stands hundreds of years, when the carpenter and the mason are far from them: for they are causes in fieri, onely the making of houses and ships.
5. This is to be considered. There are two sorts of causes:1 on in fieri, another in facto esse. The Creator in a manner is but half a cause: the father begets a son: the carpenter builds a ship: the Mason raises up the frame of a goodly house: But the son lives when the father is dead; the ship sailes thousands of miles; and the house stands hundreds of years, when the carpenter and the mason are far from them: for they are causes in fieri, onely the making of houses and ships.
- 1Two sorts of causes, one in fieri, for the producing of, and giving being to a thing, another in facto esse, for the preserving of the same thing in being. God is both ways the cause of gracious actings.Two sorts of causes, one in fieri, for the producing of, and giving being to a thing, another in facto esse, for the preserving of the same thing in being. God is both wayes the cause of gracious actings.
But there are some causes do more. The soul is a cause of the living man; and when the soul is removed, the man dies: the face looking on the glass is the cause of the image, both in its production and conservation: remove the face, and the image vanisheth away: the Sun is the cause of day-light, which is transfused through the air, from the East to the West. When the Sun goes down to another Horizon, day-light vanisheth away, because the Sun not by a deputy, and by virtue communicated to another, is the cause of the airs enlightening, but is the cause of day-light, both as touching the creating of it in fieri, and as touching the preserving of it, or in conservari & facto esse. So is God the cause of all creatures, both as touching being, and continuation being; the Lord made all things, and when they are made, the house of heaven and earth should return to nothing, if the Lord should withdraw