A92141:208
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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5. The Dogs licking of the blood of Ahab are all so linked together, by the Lord's holy and just Decree, as this is clear, if Ahab go to the War against the Syrians, the Dogs shall lick his blood, and he shall die in the battle.
5. The Dogs licking of the bloud of Achab are all so linked together, by the Lord's holy and just Decree, as this is clear, if Achab go to the War against the Syrians, the Dogs shall lick his bloud, and he shall die in the battel.
8. The administration of the means of salvation to Capernaum, not to Tyre and Sidon which would rather have repented then Capernaum, does prove this is from the Lord; if Peter hear, the Lord shall effectually persuade him to believe; if Cain, Pharaoh, Judas, hear, the Lord shall not effectually persuade them to believe. The Lord commands reprobates to repent and believe, if they would be saved; yet did he never decree the belief, repentance or salvation of any of them: does not Sovereignty here shine? who decrees the non-salvation of Judas, and the non-effectual drawing of Judas to Christ? which saith there be no property so called, and bands of conditions lying upon the Lord; if Judas repent he shall be saved, as if a father promise to his son an hundred Acres of land upon condition that the son pay him one hundred shillings; if the father only can and must furnish to the son the hundred shillings, and in the mean time deny the purpose in his heart, to deny to furnish the hundred shillings; it cannot be so strictly said that there is the tie and band of a proper condition lying upon the father, though it doth lie upon the son. And however the ways of the holy Lord be equal, yet are they far above our ways, and we are to be silenced at the bottomless depth of holy Sovereignty; he lays obligations to duties upon us, and is free from the debt of paying or bestowing the sum of gracious influences (without which we willingly cannot perform these duties) upon us: and he may justly crave what we cannot pay, when our impotency to pay is both our own, and also goes along with our elective, free choosing and hearty willingness, and rejoicing not to pay, ⟨p. 50⟩