A92141:197
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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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 ⟨p. 46⟩Decree?) who hath resisted his will? a graceless soul will flee upon eternal Decrees and Events that belong to God, but is never humbled for sin and remission of duties;1 The gracious soul is much upon these thoughts, O the freedom of the eternal emanations of free grace, and the depth of the outgoings of Sovereign justice, and does mournfully complain of its own sinful actings, Psal. 51. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. we are to say Amen to his way. Sovereignty is not our Rule, clay is not to watch over the Lord's acts of holy Sovereignty, but in point of submitting to the opened and revealed Decrees, but is to eye the rule, watch over the heart in point of duties.
This is a hardning thought in the fallen Angels and reprobate men, that they strive against and hate the providence permitting their fall and sin; but doe neither strive against, nor hate their permitted fall and sin 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 why doth he yet, (notwithstanding of his irresistible Decree, find fault with our sin? why doth he not blame his own ⟨p. 46⟩Decree?) who hath resisted his will? a graceless soul will flee upon eternal Decrees and Events that belong to God, but is never humbled for sin and remission of duties;1 The gracious soul is much upon these thoughts, O the freedome of the eternal emanations of free grace, and the depth of the outgoings of Soveraign justice, and does mournfully complain of its own sinful actings, Psal. 51. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. we are to say Amen to his way. Soveraignty is not our Rule, clay is not to watch over the Lord's acts of holy Soveraignty, but in point of submitting to the opened and revealed Decrees, but is to eye the rule, watch over the heart in point of duties.