A92141:283
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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Ans. Not at all: for one and the same cannot be a just excuse, and a due rebuke:1 but the holy Ghost rebukes our cannot as a sinful cannot, and so our impotency cannot be a just excuse. So, Joshua chap. 24. 19. Ye cannot serve the Lord. Isa. 29. 11. I cannot read the book, that is, I am sinfully ignorant of prophecy. Isa. 44. 18. They cannot understand, no more then blind men. Jer. 6. Their ear is uncircumcised, they cannot hearken. The Lord grievously challengeth the people, ver. 11. I am full of the anger of the Lord, and denounce wrath against this rebellious cannot; for not only is the tree rejected as bearing evil fruit, but also because the sap is sour, and the bulk rotten. Christ speaks rebukingly of some impotent cannot of the world; Joh. 14. ⟨p. 74⟩