A92141:297
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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3. Would God give me a new power, I would run; now this power he denies to me, and gives to many.
3. Would God give me a new power, I would run; now this power he denyes to me, and gives to many.
That this special practical doubt may be fully removed.
1. A word to the Objector. 2. To the Objection.
To the Objector 1. If the Lord had given me the same grace that he gave David,1 I should run as David. 1. It is of much concernment, who moves the Objection, whether a Convert, or a non-convert: it is commendable in neither; but in an unhumbled non-convert, it is senseless. If the sense be, had the Lord bestowed on me the grace habitual and actual, such as he bestowed on David, I should be a man according to the Lord's heart, as well as David. No thanks, no praise or glory to David, that he is a man according to God's heart; True; and therefore no guilt is upon the Objector, nor is any punishment due to him that he remains in cursed nature; this follows not.