A92141:247
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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8. What could the powerful influences of God Creator separated from Christ the treasure-house of love and mercy do to us? and if Omnipotency were separated from the ⟨p. 61⟩promises of the Gospel, could it save us, in the Lord's way? through the blood of Christ; for power in God cannot (to speak so) save men, but by the Name of Jesus Christ, the only saving Name under Heaven, Acts 4. 12. nor can Omnipotency work a redemption now in this Gospel-dispensation, but that which is by blood, Ephes. 1. 7. Col. 1. 13. And that which is to declare the righteousness of God for the remission of sins. Power acts by way of complete satisfaction, as the exceeding greatness of God's power to us-ward who believe, is of the same size with the mighty power which raised Christ from the dead, and set him on the right-hand of God in heavenly places, Ephes. 1. 14, 20. The power of translating a sinner from Satan's Kingdom to the Kingdom of the Son of his love works as acted (as it were) and set on work to act righteously to translate no man, but the person for whom a ransom of blood is given to justice, as the Princes right power is only for the good of free and legal subjects, Col. 1. 11, 12, 13. and that all power in Heaven and Earth to save, Matth. 28. 18. John 17. 2. Matth. 11. 27. and that Kingly and Royal power to give repentance to Israel and forgiveness of sins, Acts 5. 31. to forgive sins, Matth. 9. 6. to raise and quicken the dead,