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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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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; Exod. 5. 2, 8, 16, 17, 18. Psal. 14. 4. Psal. 10. 6, 7, 8. 4. 10, 11. Psal. 36. 3, 4. Psal. 84. 5, 6, 7, 8. Prov. 1. 11, 12. Prov. 2. 14. Prov. 4. 16. 17. Prov. 10. 23. Prov. 14. 9. Prov. 7. 18. Prov. 9. 17. Psal. 49. 11. Luke 11. 39. Psal. 5. 9. Psal. 64. 6.
2. Influences for getting of the habits or performing the acts of saving grace, are the Lord's own; therefore Soveraignty 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 rejoyce with all his heart at the influences and concurring providences of God to the contrary sinful actings, as he doth;