A92141:167
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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Because the influence of the Lord's grace depends most upon the Sovereignty of God, so far above us, as is spoken in the fourth Article; its needful we speak of these.
BEcause the influence of the Lord's grace depends most upon the Soveraignty of God, so far above us, as is spoken in the fourth Article; its needful we speak of these.
1. What Sovereignty is. 2. In how many particulars the sovereignty of God doth appear. 3. What submission we owe, and how we are to stoop thereunto. 4. Such as are most active in doing God's will, are most submissively patient in suffering his will, & contra. 5. We are to give submission of pain to God. 6. Providence of the Gospel is above Law-providence. 7. The righteousness of God is incomparably above our righteousness. 8. Our Justification is not negative only. 9. The Law requires sinless suffering. 10. Inherent righteousness is not the adequate end of the Gospel.
1. What Soveraignty is. 2. In how many particulars the soveraignty of God doth appear. 3. What submission we owe, and how we are to stoop thereunto. 4. Such as are most active in doing God's will, are most submissively patient in suffering his will, & contra. 5. We are to give submission of pain to God. 6. Providence of the Gospel is above Law-providence. 7. The righteousness of God is incomparably above our righteousness. 8. Our Justification is not negative only. 9. The Law requires sinless suffering. 10. Inherent righteousness is not the adequate end of the Gospel.
1.1 To know what Sovereignty is. 1. Let us see what it is not. 1. Omnipotency and Sovereignty thus differ; Omnipotency looks simply to effects physically, what the Lord can do: he can of stones make sons to Abraham; he can create millions of Worlds; his Sovereignty is not only his holy Nature what he can do and so supposeth his Omnipotency, but also what he doth freely, or doth not freely, and doth by no natural necessity, and so it includes his holy supreme Liberty, and also what the Lord may do, as it were Jure he may do all things, and (as Elihu saith) gives not an account of his matters to any,