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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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Yea 4. It is a shame to compare together the righteousness of God (and we are in Christ made this righteousness of God, 2 Cor. 5. 21.) and the inherent, mixed, imperfect righteousness of a renewed man; for the one needs no pardon, and the other is sinful, and as menstruous clothes without a pardon, Isa. 64. 6. I mean not that the believing, praying, &c. of the regenerate are formally and in the substance ⟨p. 43⟩of the act sins, but by accident they are sinful and polluted; but even in the substance of the act, they are nothing comparable to the acts of obedience in Christ, which are every way complete and perfect according to the strictest rule of the Law of works.
Yea 4. It is a shame to compare together the righteousness of God (and we are in Christ made this righteousness of God, 2 Cor. 5. 21.) and the inherent, mixt, imperfect righteousness of a renewed man; for the one needs no pardon, and the other is sinful, and as menstruous cloaths without a pardon, Isa. 64. 6. I mean not that the believing, praying, &c. of the regenerate are formally and in the substance ⟨p. 43⟩of the act sins, but by accident they are sinful and polluted; but even in the substance of the act, they are nothing comparable to the acts of obedience in Christ, which are every way complete and perfect according to the strictest rule of the Law of works.
Yea 5.1 Its a false ground to say that by justification or remission of sins (as some say, but they are not every way the same) only the guilt of sin is removed, or only deliverance from eternal punishment; for Christ's dying and satisfying is ours, he dying in our stead and place, and we dying in him legally (not physically) and so are we not only by his satisfaction which is made ours, and by faith applied to us, negatively freed from Hell, but positively righteous; (I say not inherently or personally) for Christ's satisfaction is not a mere dying, nor mere suffering; for beasts may die and suffer much. But such a dying and such a suffering, for 1. Christ's dying and satisfying hath an excellency from the subject God-man who dyed,