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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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CHAP. XI.
1. Our impotency to duties being reproved, cannot excuse us in the omitting of them. 2. The wicked habit in sleeping men is faulty. 3. Therefore the withdrawing of influences excuses not. 4. The Creatures sin is not from the Lord's withdrawing of influences of grace formally, but from our withdrawing of our hearts from his moral Commandment. 5. The Objection of many, (if God would give me influences of grace as he did to Moses and David I would be as holy as any) discussed, the Objector and the Objection both answered. 6. The non-sense of the Objection opened. 7. A natural man hates influences both physical, and moral, though he wish physical influences. 8. The Objection exalteth nature, abuseth grace, and many ways reproacheth God, his Grace, Sovereignty, Wisdom, &c.
1. Our impotency to duties being reproved, cannot excuse us in the omitting of them. 2. The wicked habit in sleeping men is faulty. 3. Therefore the withdrawing of influences excuses not. 4. The Creatures sin is not from the Lord's withdrawing of influences of grace formally, but from our withdrawing of our hearts from his moral Commandment. 5. The Objection of many, (if God would give me influences of grace as he did to Moses and David I would be as holy as any) discussed, the Objector and the Objection both answered. 6. The non-sense of the Objection opened. 7. A natural man hates influences both physical, and moral, though he wish physical influences. 8. The Objection exalteth nature, abuseth grace, and many ways reproacheth God, his Grace, Soveraignty, Wisedom, &c.
Q. Whether or no doth our impotency to pray and believe clear and justify us,1 in that we believe not and pray not?