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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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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, Rom. 9. this is a humbling thought to clay graciously disposed which dare not contradict the Soveraign 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 chuse me, or did he once name my name, and write me for life eternal?
- 1We are not to struggle with permissive providence, its not our Rule, but to be low, because of the deep results of that providence, our own permitted sins.
This is a hardening thought in the fallen Angels and reprobate men, that they strive against and hate the providence permitting their fall and sin; but do neither strive against, nor hate their permitted fall and sin [Greek or Hebrew] why doth he yet, (notwithstanding of his irresistible Decree, find fault with our sin? why doth he not blame his own