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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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4. He who so objects, being a non-convert, yea all converts in this life in so far as there are in us the remainders of a body of sin, close not a little with that divinity of Satan, Gen. 3. 5. Ye shall be as Gods, 1knowing good and evil; and therefore love to be independent and to be from under God, as is the unhappy word of Spira in point of suffering, O if I were above God. So speak the enemies of our Lord, who love not gracious influences, (as Christ is a well-governing, a sweetly awing Lord in all his influences) Psal. 2. 3. Let us break their bands and cast away their cords; though they be silken cords. So the Citizens of Christ, Luk. 19. 14. hate him and set mans will on Jesus Christ's throne, [Greek or Hebrew], We will not have this man to reign over us; the World hates a ruling and reigning Christ; and so we ⟨p. 81⟩hate his holy actings, and the wishing to have grace and gracious influences ruling in us, is a dream; we really desire no such thing, but love an independency of our own, as was the unlucky prayer of the son who loved not to be under his heavenly Father, Luke 15. 12. The younger son said to his father, Father, give me the portion of goods that falleth to me. And so hate men the Lord in his influences of the word, rebuking them, Isa. 30. 11. Cause the holy One of Israel to cease from before us. And so this Objector; O that he would give me the double of David's grace, is an empty wish, as if hot fire would say, O that I were quenched with cold water; a lover of grace must be a gracious man.
4. He who so objects, being a non-convert, yea all converts in this life in so far as there are in us the remainders of a body of sin, close not a little with that divinity of Satan, Gen. 3. 5. Ye shall be as Gods,