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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. He that willingly lends lodging and a furnace, and a warm hearth-stone to sin original, and remains willingly in the state of unrenewed nature, is not a patient under sin original, the man is not a captive and a prisoner against his will, to him who hath the power of life and death, and to him who sends a writ of grace, and bids him come out, and casts ope the prison doors, yet he remains there, eats, drinks, sleeps, sports. Christ the Lord of life hath sent the Gospel, which is a bill of free grace, he bids you come out of cursed nature, be renewed in the spirit of your mind, come to me, and I will ease you; yet ye will not change your life, this 20, 30, 40 years, since the Gospel of grace came to you; you eat, drink, sleep, wake, laugh, rejoice in a state of distance from Christ, and refuse to come out of that prison.
2. He that willingly lends lodging and a furnace, and a warm hearth-stone to sin original, and remains willingly in the state of unrenewed nature, is not a patient under sin original, the man is not a captive and a prisoner against his will, to him who hath the power of life and death, and to him who sends a writ of grace, and bids him come out, and casts ope the prison doors, yet he remains there, eats, drinks, sleeps, sports. Christ the Lord of life hath sent the Gospel, which is a bill of free grace, he bids you come out of cursed nature, be renewed in the spirit of your mind, come to me, and I will ease you; yet ye will not change your life, this 20, 30, 40 years, since the Gospel of grace came to you; you eat, drink, sleep, wake, laugh, rejoyce in a state of distance from Christ, and refuse to come out of that prison.
3. I would I were without original sin, (ye say) and yet when you willingly lye, swear, whore, you put seal, subscription, and consent to Adam's first sin; He that delights in the streams and drinks with delight, does he not love the water of the fountain? then to say, I would be without sin original, ⟨p. 92⟩is as much, as I would be without sin, and I would not be without sin; does not this man allow Adam's deed, and serve himself heir to Adam his father's sin, twenty times in one day? and in such a man sin original is not diminished, and brought down to a sin of infirmity; as in Paul,