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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.
Q. 1. What is the book of Moses and the Prophets but a paper roll of letters and syllables; would he send a Preacher from Hell, and a Messenger from Heaven to give them sufficient warning and instruction of a Heaven and a Hell, it were good, but that he does not, he then is to be blamed; not my five brethren. 2. He who shows mercy on whom he will, and hardeneth whom he will, and that by a strong mighty will which no man can resist, he can find fault with no man, though he sin and harden his own heart; For his absolute Sovereign will is far above me and my strength; but so doth the Lord, saith the carnal man, Rom. 4. 18. 19. and the holy Ghost saith, such an Objection is unworthy to be moved or answered; nor becomes it base clay and the clay pot so to argue with the great potter and former of all things.
Q. 1. What is the book of Moses and the Prophets but a paper roll of letters and syllables; would he send a Preacher from Hell, and a Messenger from Heaven to give them sufficient warning and instruction of a Heaven and a Hell, it were good, but that he does not, he then is to be blamed; not my five brethren. 2. He who shews mercy on whom he will, and hardneth whom he will, and that by a strong mighty will which no man can resist, he can find fault with no man, though he sin and harden his own heart; For his absolute Soveraign will is far above me and my strength; but so doth the Lord, saith the carnal man, Rom. 4. 18. 19. and the holy Ghost saith, such an Objection is unworthy to be moved or answered; nor becomes it base clay and the clay pot so to argue with the great potter and former of all things.
2. Influences for getting of the habits or performing the acts of saving grace, are the Lord's own; therefore Sovereignty is his Law, he may bestow them, or withhold them, as he pleaseth; especially if the Creature be willing to want these influences, and if the Sun rejoice with all his heart at the influences and concurring providences of God to the contrary sinful actings, as he doth;