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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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4.1 And is not free goodness here complained of? God knowingly and wittingly (saith the lying Devil) envying you should be gods, forbids you to eat of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. Envy is contrary to communicative goodness: free goodness gives freely in measure, in weight and number, as best pleaseth him; now God gives not grace enough.
4.1 And is not free goodness here complained of? God knowingly and wittingly (saith the lying Divel) envying you should be gods, forbids you to eat of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. Envy is contrary to communicative goodness: free goodness gives freely in measure, in weight and number, as best pleaseth him; now God gives not grace enough.
- 1The Objection chargeth the holy Lord with envy.
5.1 His holiness and righteousness is arraigned. 1. He did not from eternity show mercy, nor provide a new heart for me; then, that I serve not, as he deserves, let him blame himself, not me. 2. He created me a slippery clay vessel, which he saw should fall upon stones, and be broken; he might have made me brass and iron, that could not be broken. And 3. that I sin, wanting the fullness of the anointing, and influences in a personal union, as in the man Christ, is a defect in God, not in man; and all the sins I commit, he could have prevented them, and either would not, or could not.
5.1 His holiness and righteousness is arraigned. 1. He did not from eternity shew mercy, nor provide a new heart for me; then, that I serve not, as he deserves, let him blame himself, not me. 2. He created me a slippery clay vessel, which he saw should fall upon stones, and be broken; he might have made me brass and iron, that could not be broken. And 3. that I sin, wanting the fulness of the anointing, and influences in a personal union, as in the man Christ, is a defect in God, not in man; and all the sins I commit, he could have prevented them, and either would not, or could not.