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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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Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
CHAP. IX.
Of the Sovereignty of God in the works of Creation and Providence, in other considerations.
Of the Soveraignty of God in the works of Creation and Providence, in other considerations.
1. IN regard of the Lord's manner of working. 2. And of his end of working. 3. And of his omnipotent arm. 4. Of his holiness, he could not in greater wisdom have created things (for nothing can be added to infinite wisdom and goodness) so infiniteness was at the creating of a worm,1 as at the creating of the Angel Gabriel: but in regard of things created, he could have made a more perfect world, then this and the Angel-nature, mans nature, the Sun, Birds, Beasts of more excellency, as touching perfection both of nature and accidents, then these that now are; But here Sovereignty hath place.
1. IN regard of the Lord's manner of working. 2. And of his end of working. 3. And of his omnipotent arm. 4. Of his holiness, he could not in greater wisedom have created things (for nothing can be added to infinite wisedom and goodness) so infinitenesse was at the creating of a worm,1 as at the creating of the Angel Gabriel: but in regard of things created, he could have made a more perfect world, then this and the Angel-nature, mans nature, the Sun, Birds, Beasts of more excellency, as touching perfection both of nature and accidents, then these that now are; But here Soveraignty hath place.
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