A92141:330
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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3.1 This is a complaining against the free grace of God; there is a sort of grace of Creation, and a Comet or a Star is here left to complain, why made not the Lord me a shining Sun? and the Thistle must challenge God, why ⟨p. 90⟩made he not me a Fig-tree, or a Vine-tree? are not here beggars at the Lord's door boasting the Lord, because they get not an Alms of begged and borrowed being after their own carnal will? So here, what ebness of grace was this, that the Lord would not bestow the same influences of grace on Beelzebub the prince of devils, before he fell, as upon the Angel Gabriel, and the Seraphims, who fly with wings to do his will, and cover their faces with wings, as blushing before infinite holiness? why bestows he not as much saving influences on me, as on David, Moses, Noah, Job, and Daniel? why not as much grace, and of the fullness of the anointing, as upon the man Christ, that holy thing, Jesus?
3.1 This is a complaining against the free grace of God; there is a sort of grace of Creation, and a Comet or a Star is here left to complain, why made not the Lord me a shining Sun? and the Thistle must challenge God, why ⟨p. 90⟩made he not me a Fig-tree, or a Vine-tree? are not here beggars at the Lord's door boasting the Lord, because they get not an Almes of begged and borrowed being after their own carnal will? So here, what ebness of grace was this, that the Lord would not bestow the same influences of grace on Beelzebub the prince of divels, before he fell, as upon the Angel Gabriel, and the Seraphims, who flie with wings to doe his will, and cover their faces with wings, as blushing before infinite holiness? why bestows he not as much saving influences on me, as on David, Moses, Noah, Job, and Daniel? why not as much grace, and of the fulness of the anointing, as upon the man Christ, that holy thing, Jesus?
- 13. The Objection is against the freedom of grace.