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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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3. Then must the holy Lord be in the fault, who might give influences of grace, and a whole nature; yea, and the holy Ghost from the womb, as he did to John the Baptist, but denies it.
But 1.1 God hath appointed no extraordinary way of healing our nature. The Baptist was from the womb cured of the dominion of sin original, it entered not with his life, in its full reign, as a King, as in others, and sin original was in the Baptist as in others, as to the demerit, if God should have entered in judgement with him. Now the Objector would be free of original sin in his own way, not in God's way.
- 1God ties us to his own way of removing of sin, not to our empty wishing that it were removed.
1. He condemns God in that ever he permitted such a sin to be; what warrant is there in Scripture for striving with any providence or physical influences of God? none at all.
2. What warrant to complain that all from the womb have not the same influences of grace which the Lord graciously bestowed on John Baptist?