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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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and that the Lord in a second intention and (as if it were) compelled by a cross wind must sail into a next best and second harbour, which yet undoubtedly is the excellentest and highest declarative glory of the Lord which the conceptions of Angels or Men can reach, and was (if I may so speak) the eternal delight of the Lord, while as yet, he had not made the earth, or the fields, Pro. 8. 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31. though I am far from thinking that any thing without God, doth conclude his holy Sovereignty; yet the Lord's soul delighting in the holy obedience of Christ and ⟨p. 42⟩the eternal declarative glory thereof, shall be highest to me, and in the hearts (I conceive) of the godly, the most eminent revealed end, and to Scripture.
and that the Lord in a second intention and (as if it were) compelled by a cross wind must sail into a next best and second harbour, which yet undoubtedly is the excellentest and highest declarative glory of the Lord which the conceptions of Angels or Men can reach, and was (if I may so speak) the eternal delight of the Lord, while as yet, he had not made the earth, or the fields, Pro. 8. 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31. though I am far from thinking that any thing without God, doth conclude his holy Soveraignty; yet the Lord's soul delighting in the holy obedience of Christ and ⟨p. 42⟩the eternal declarative glory thereof, shall be highest to me, and in the hearts (I conceive) of the godly, the most eminent revealed end, and to Scripture.
4. Neither is it better pleasing to God, not to sin, then when the man hath sinned, to seek pardon for sin in the blood of Christ.1 I know not what Scripture so speaks or so teacheth both the one and the other is the approving and commanding will of God; and if the Gospel be more glorious and excellent then the Law,