A92141:199
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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2. He decreed twelve thousand of every Tribe to be sealed, a certain number for an uncertain; he wrote so many, not one more nor fewer; Why are many called and few chosen? the blessed number of Persons, by Country, ⟨p. 47⟩House, Head, Name to be bought by the ransom of Christ's blood is agreed upon between the Father and the Son not one more paid for and ransomed, not one fewer, the number of the Citizens were agreed upon; they are not moveable Tenants, the Lord loves not to put out, or to put in, none can take your chair and Crown in Heaven; its a deep to consider how millions of millions of influences and stirrings the Sovereign Lord laid up beside himself from eternity to let out upon his hosts of Creatures, and especially Men and Angels, and a treasure of influences of grace are with him; would we bring our witheredness under these eternal dewings, we should have more of the anointing.
2. He decreed twelve thousand of every Tribe to be sealed, a certain number for an uncertain; he wrote so many, not one more nor fewer; Why are many called and few chosen? the blessed number of Persons, by Country, ⟨p. 47⟩House, Head, Name to be bought by the ransome of Christ's bloud is agreed upon between the Father and the Son not one more paid for and ransomed, not one fewer, the number of the Citizens were agreed upon; they are not moveable Tenants, the Lord loves not to put out, or to put in, none can take your chair and Crown in Heaven; its a deep to consider how millions of millions of influences and stirrings the Soveraign Lord laid up beside himself from eternity to let out upon his hosts of Creatures, and especially Men and Angels, and a treasure of influences of grace are with him; would we bring our witherednesse under these eternal dewings, we should have more of the anointing.
3. The Lord's Sovereignty decreed not things only,1 but the connection of things, as between Bread and Wine used according to the Lord's Institution, and the broken Body and shed blood of Christ: they suit not together of their own Nature and Essentially; therefore by the intervening will of God.