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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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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.
3. Nor is it fit to say, that the Lord had rather David committed adultery and murther, 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 hloy decree.
And then 4. The righteous Lord loves righteousness, yet the Lord absolutely and simply willed rather the holy, free submissive obedience of the second Adam to be, then he wills the final obedience of the first Adam; and he wills more the manifestation of the glory of his free grace, pardoning mercy, revenging justice in that excellent of the most excellent our Emanuel, then the legislative glory of Adam and all his possible final obedience;1 and the Lord wills no end rather then his own glory; but the Lord never commands us to will but what he approveth, and its ⟨p. 41⟩needless to enquire whether a more eminent declarative glory could be,2 then that which is the delight of the Lord's soul, the pleasure of the Lord, love greater then any man hath, the rejoicing of the Lord, loved and desired to be read, looked unto with wondering and adoring by the holy Angels; nor can any inherent righteousness of man please the Lord, in any imaginable measure and manner, as the obedience of Christ in offering himself to God through the eternal Spirit,