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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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7. I would do otherwise, but ah my sinful nature! I ⟨p. 91⟩was born in sin;1 this is a blaming of providence. 1. God denies influences, and the fullness of the holy Ghost from the womb to me, and all mankind, which he gave to the man Christ.
7. I would doe otherwise, but ah my sinful nature! I ⟨p. 91⟩was born in sin;1 this is a blaming of providence. 1. God denies influences, and the fulness of the holy Ghost from the womb to me, and all mankind, which he gave to the man Christ.
- 1It strives with holy providence in the point of original sin.
But 1. The flowing of sin original is a work of holy justice, who so punished the first fall; and you carp not at the indwelling of sin original, by which the poison of the sinful nature, is hateful to God, Gen. 6. 5. Gen. 8. 21. but at the Lord's righteous smiting of our nature. Shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it, what makest thou? Isa. 45. 9. and as if he were a patient under sin original; Ah, I would be from under a body of sin, 1but I am captive, sold under sin; This is a lye; every man is in this sense a captive under sin original, in that, nill he, will he, he is born in sin: and the flux of justice so determined, ere the man was born, but the unrenewed Objector is not so a captive: he that was never humbled for sin original, as David confesseth it his plague and sore,