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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 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, Act. 20. 28. 2. It hath an excellent qualification from the patience, submission, willingness of God-man, the like whereof could be in no simple Man, in no Angel, in no Creature; for the personal influence of God was in him & his obedience. As for the damned in Hell, their satisfaction is of another nature different from Christ's, & is only satispassion and pure torment, not holy, willing, suffering as the Law requires sinless sufferings as contradistinguished from active obedience. How be it the Law moral doth require patient and submissive suffering without despairing or blaspheming, in any reasonable Creature; for the holy Law cannot but condemn sin and blasphemy, adhering either to our acting or suffering.
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 applyed to us, negatively freed from Hell, but positively righteous; (I say not inherently or personally) for Christ's satisfaction is not a meer dying, nor meer 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, Act. 20. 28