A92141:318
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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Ans. 1. We believe not the word spoken by Angels, the Law, nor the word spoken by the Lord, Heb. 2. 3. and Heb. 12. 25. For if they escaped not, who refused him who spake on Earth; much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him who speaketh from Heaven. Christ came from Heaven and out of the bosom of the Father, and hath preached Heaven and Hell to us; for he had experience of wrath, answerable to the pain of Hell.
Ans. 1. We believe not the word spoken by Angels, the Law, nor the word spoken by the Lord, Heb. 2. 3. and Heb. 12. 25. For if they escaped not, who refused him who spake on Earth; much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him who speaketh from Heaven. Christ came from Heaven and out of the bosome of the Father, and hath preached Heaven and Hell to us; for he had experience of wrath, answerable to the pain of Hell.
2. This is no other shift, then that of the rich man in the Parable, Luk. 16. 30. Nay, father Abraham, if one went to them from the dead, they will repent. Now repentance ⟨p. 85⟩flows not from the Preachers experience, though he had seen and felt the pains of Hell, or the joys of Heaven; nor doth the experience of Heaven's joy or Hell's torment, heal the broken and wounded will; and the rich man's divinity hath been the same with Pelagians way, that if the word be feelingly and dexterously proposed, it can waken up the sleeping free will; and repentance is a work of nature, if the fire be dexterously blown upon, it will certainly flame, and all depends upon the running and willing of his five brethren.