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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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Divers Particulars in which Sovereignty appears.
Divers Particulars in which Soveraignty appears.
1. Sovereignty and the glorious liberty of God appears in 1. His Decrees. 2. The Works of God, especially 1. Of Creation. 2. Of common Providence. 3. Works of more special Providence. 1. Works of Justice. 2. Works of Free-grace.
1. SOveraignty and the glorious liberty of God appears in 1. His Decrees. 2. The Works of God, especially 1. Of Creation. 2. Of common Providence. 3. Works of more special Providence. 1. Works of Justice. 2. Works of Free-grace.
The Sovereignty of his Decrees, is 1. In these two solemn and celebrious Decrees of Election and Reprobation. He loved Jacob and hated Esau before ever the children had done good or evil, Rom. 9. this is a humbling thought to clay graciously disposed which dare not contradict the Sovereign potter. The Lord might have appointed my chair before the Throne, and my eternal crown to Judas and to Pharaoh; and the same Lord might so have ordered as the furnace of the traitor Judas in Hell should have been my furnace in Hell.1 2. O what depth of love, did the King choose me, or did he once name my name, and write me for life eternal?
The Soveraignty of his Decrees, is 1. In these two solemn and celebrious Decrees of Election and Reprobation. He loved Jacob and hated Esau before ever the children had done good or evil,