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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. He would have original sin removed in an extraordinary way, and not in the Lord's own way, and so tempts God, as Satan tempted Christ to work miracles for bread, and to cast himself down over the pinnacle of the Temple.
4. He would have original sin removed in an extraordinary way, and not in the Lord's own way, and so tempts God, as Satan tempted Christ to work miracles for bread, and to cast himself down over the pinacle of the Temple.
1. Now this, Lord, I would be without sin original, but I cannot, thou hast so ordained my nature to be; but it is ⟨p. 93⟩against my will and my heart, for my heart hates it, its double dealing, and an untruth; for then the will must be clean, then the Objector must be cleaner and holier, then God says in Scripture the unrenewed man is.
2. Then must the will be, by nature, free of sin original, whereas the frame of the heart is only evil from the womb, and deceitful and desperately wicked, Gen. 6. 5. Gen. 8. 21. Jer. 17. 9.