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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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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.
3. The Lord's Soveraignty decreed not things only,1 but the connexion of things, as between Bread and Wine used according to the Lord's Institution, and the broken Body and shed bloud of Christ: they suit not together of their own Nature and Essentially; therefore by the intervening will of God.
- 1The connection of things of which the extremes never shall come to pass, as also the existence and co-existence of things must be under the holy Sovereignty of God.The connection of things of which the extremes never shall come to pass, as also the existence and co-existence of things must be under the holy Soveraignty of God.
2. In things of remote nature, this is seen, 2 Kings 13. 19. If thou had smitten the ground five or six times, then hadst thou smitten Syria, till thou had consumed it: whereas now thou shalt smite Syria but thrice. The connection of the Kings smiting of the ground and of smiting of the Syrians, is not from the nature of the things themselves, but from the free appointment of God: if Christ talk with the woman of Samaria and ask of her a Drink of water, he shall convert her, and the Samaritans before he leave her. If Job be spoiled, he shall humbly submit himself to God, and bless him. There may be more or less conveniency between the things, but all the connection of things in this kind might in their contraries have been as true, if so holy Sovereignty had appointed.