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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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2. In relations; of a Master, a Head of a family, a Parent, the power hath been used against God, not for him. Would God I were Judge of the Land, I would do justice to every man. And when Absalom was made a piece of a King, he did no justice, in lying with, and defiling his own father's wives; then Absalom if he had had triple more power, he would not have used it better.
2. In relations; of a Master, a Head of a family, a Parent, the power hath been used against God, not for him. Would God I were Judge of the Land, I would doe justice to every man. And when Absalom was made a piece of a King, he did no justice, in lying with, and defiling his own father's wives; then Absalom if he had had triple more power, he would not have used it better.
3. In the matter of age; Were I old and grave, I would use the power of grace I have, to repent, walk softly, and be holy. Who told you that grace or parts not improved for God shall grow? and suppose they grow, who can promise, except he give free will surety, that he shall improve grace, ⟨p. 82⟩except by the help of grace? and though grace help grace, yet cannot free will engage for the time to come, to set a diet and term-day for turning to God the next year, and when you are old; when as ye are obliged while it is to day not to harden your heart, and presently to repent: this is to make repentance a tree which bears not fruit, while some scores of years after its planting; a holy heart doth fear and tremble under the present hardness and deadness.
3. In the matter of age; Were I old and grave, I would use the power of grace I have, to repent, walk softly, and be holy. Who told you that grace or parts not improved for God shall grow? and suppose they grow, who can promise, except he give free will surety, that he shall improve grace, ⟨p. 82⟩except by the help of grace? and though grace help grace, yet cannot free will engage for the time to come, to set a dyet and term-day for turning to God the next year, and when you are old; when as ye are obliged while it is to day not to harden your heart, and presently to repent: this is to make repentance a tree which bears not fruit, while some scores of years after its planting; a holy heart doth fear and tremble under the present hardness and deadness.