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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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3. Some are troubled how Sovereignty of quickening influences in the gracious Lord, who quickens hic & nunc, in every duty, and withdraws his sovereign concurrence as he best pleaseth, can consist with our debt of duty. It's safest to look to duty and the commanding will to rise up and be doing, and not to dazzle the wit with disputing the sovereignty of God, nor to enquire into his latent decreeing will.
3. Some are troubled how Soveraignty of quickning influences in the gratious Lord, who quickens hic & nunc, in every duty, and withdraws his soveraign concurrence as he best pleaseth, can consist with our debt of duty. It's safest to look to duty and the commanding will to rise up and be doing, and not to dazle the wit with disputing the soveraignty of God, nor to enquire into his latent decreeing will.
4. A gracious heart is so taken up with care to pay the rent of commanded duties, as he hath no leisure to argue why? and if the Lord had decreed to give me quickening influences I should not thus decline. The thesis of an heart of unbelief is a more edifying them to dispute against, and to weep over, then to quarrel with, and agitate the question concerning the Lords withdrawing of his congruous applying of the word to the heart, or his prescience and permissive decrees: duty is mine, Sovereignty is his.
4. A gracious heart is so taken up with care to pay the rent of commanded duties, as he hath no leasure to argue why? and if the Lord had decreed to give me quickning influences I should not thus decline. The thesis of an heart of unbelief is a more edifying them to dispute against, and to weep over, then to quarrel with, and agitate the question concerning the Lords withdrawing of his congruous applying of the word to the heart, or his praescience and permissive decrees: duty is mine, Soveraignty is his.