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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. It cannot be conceived how a soul in guiltiness must be in a case of invincibly necessitated despair, if he conceive and ⟨image 12⟩believe the Lord gave me a power to will or not to will free from all divine determination, and before any act of his foreknowledge or decree, I was finally and wilfully to reject the Physician Christ, and this the Lord did foreknow, but could not efficaciously hinder; what place can be left for consolation in God, or submission to the holy will of God, for this was invincibly to come to pass, before any act of his will or prescience.
7. It cannot be conceived how a soul in guiltiness must be in a case of invincibly necessitated despair, if he conceive and ⟨image 12⟩believe the Lord gave me a power to will or not to will free from all divine determination, and before any act of his foreknowledge or decree, I was finaly and wilfully to reject the Physitian Christ, and this the Lord did foreknow, but could not efficaciously hinder; what place can be left for consolation in God, or submission to the holy will of God, for this was invincibly to come to pass, before any act of his will or praescience.
8. Nor can I pray in faith, Lord, incline my heart unto thy testimonies: if the voluntary determination of my own heart to his holy testimonies, or the wicked vital refusing to yield unto, or to be led by his testimonies, go before the act of the Lords knowledge or will, or before any efficacious, congruous, internal and victorious drawing of me to Jesus Christ.
8. Nor can I pray in faith, Lord, encline my heart unto thy testimonies: if the voluntary determination of my own heart to his holy testimonies, or the wicked vital refusing to yield unto, or to be led by his testimonies, go before the act of the Lords knowledge or will, or before any efficacious, congruous, internal and victorious drawing of me to Jesus Christ.