A92141:187
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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Nor 6. Let it be said to the undervaluing of the righteousness of God through faith, that inherent righteousness is the full end of Christ's blood; when in the state of glory, there shall be no more pardoning of sin, but perfect inherent holiness.
Nor 6. Let it be said to the undervaluing of the righteousness of God through faith, that inherent righteousness is the full end of Christ's bloud; when in the state of glory, there shal be no more pardoning of sin, but perfect inherent holiness.
For 1. that inherent holiness in the estate of glory is not perfect legal holiness, nor the formal cause of our justification in glory; because all the glorified once sinned, and so for eternity are such as have violated the Law.
2. Our righteousness from the time forward shall not only ⟨p. 44⟩be inherent; for the righteousness of God is an everlasting righteousness,1 Dan. 9. 24. and how that robe of Christ's surety-righteousness shall in the state of glory, be laid by as an old useless garment, and the robe of inherent righteousness in lieu of it put on for ever. The Scripture does not speak; What men without Scripture, speak, we care not.
- 1Inherent righteousness in glory is not the complete and adequate end of Gospel justification; or of the Lord's Gospel-dispensation in commanding us to believe and be holy.