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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
As to the Objection it self,
1. It is false;1 If I had grace, I should improve it to gracious actings: For you improve not nature, and the endowments and parts of nature, to natural actings; and upon the same account, he who improves not grace of three degrees, would not better improve grace of six degrees. Natural wisdom is not used for Christ, but against him, and the Gospel, and is mispended in plotting, laying of snares for the godly, in taking crafty counsel against the Israel of God, in gathering and heaping together riches, in painting and busking lies against the truth, and a thousand ways of that kind; whereas that wisdom might have been profitable, for building of the house of God, and in edifying a mans own soul, and the souls of others.
1. It is false;1 If I had grace, I should improve it to gracious actings: For you improve not nature, and the endowments and parts of nature, to natural actings; and upon the same account, he who improves not grace of three degrees, would not better improve grace of six degrees. Natural wisedom is not used for Christ, but against him, and the Gospel, and is mispended in plotting, laying of snares for the godly, in taking crafty counsel against the Israel of God, in gathering and heaping together riches, in painting and busking lies against the truth, and a thousand ways of that kind; whereas that wisedom might have been profitable, for building of the house of God, and in edifying a mans own soul, and the souls of others.
- 1He that uses not a less power or gift of two degrees for God, would not use a power of ten degrees for God; as is cleared in instances of 1. Wisdom. 2. Power of Magistracy. 3. Of old age. 4. Riches. 5. Habit of grace, &c.He that uses not a less power or gift of two degrees for God, would not use a power of ten degrees for God; as is cleared in instances of 1. Wisedom. 2. Power of Magistracy. 3. Of old age. 4. Riches. 5. Habit of grace, &c.