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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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But except we seek a knot in a Rush. 1. Its Adam's duty and all mankind's in him to stand, obey and never sin: and God wills this obligation to lie upon man as an eternally obliging duty;1 And this is true even now and eternally [Adam ought never to have sinned.]
But except we seek a knot in a Rush. 1. Its Adam's duty and all mankinds in him to stand, obey and never sin: and God wills this obligation to lie upon man as an eternally obliging duty;1 And this is true even now and eternally [Adam ought never to have sinned.]
- 1The righteousness of God through faith is incomparably above our inherent righteousness.The rightousness of God through faith is incomparably above our inherent righteousness.
2. God never willed Adam, nor commanded him in Law or Gospel, either absolutely or comparatively to put the Lord to seek a remedy or a Saviour to satisfy for us, or to pardon sin; we read of no such will.
2. God never willed Adam, nor commanded him in Law or Gospel, either absolutely or comparatively to put the Lord to seek a remedy or a Saviour to satisfie for us, or to pardon sin; we read of no such will.
3. Nor is it fit to say, that the Lord had rather David committed adultery and murder, by God's permission, and be pardoned for it, then not to commit it; for if this be meant of the commanding will of God, no man can justly charge us with putting such contradictory wills upon God; as also its unpossible that God can will the adultery of David to be, by any other will, then his will of purpose and holy decree.