A92141:351
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. This is a murmuring, at the very marrow and flower of the Gospel, John 6. 43. Murmur not among your selves. Ver. 44. No man can come to me, except the Father that sent me draw him. Then are we inclined to make war with God, because he will not give us drawing influences, and bestows them upon some. Hence these Disciples gave over all use of means, ver. 66. Went back and walked no more with Jesus. What then shall they do? they cannot force God to draw them: if the Lord will save us, its good; if not, we cannot mend it; we'll follow Christ and his new-Gospel no more.
3. This is a murmuring, at the very marrow and flower of the Gospel, John 6. 43. Murmure not among your selves. Ver. 44. No man can come to me, except the Father that sent me draw him. Then are we enclined to make war with God, because he will not give us drawing influences, and bestows them upon some. Hence these Disciples gave over all use of means, ver. 66. Went back and walked no more with Jesus. What then shall they doe? they cannot force God to draw them: if the Lord will save us, its good; if not, we cannot mend it; we'l follow Christ and his new-Gospel no more.
4. Is it to you, fools, so approved a course to give over means, so blessed of God. If it can be made out, that the influences of God do so serve (in a manner) the industry of men, then are ordinances and means not to be neglected. 1. Means used are the Lord's way of coming to us, and our way of coming to him,1 whether in the word preached, Acts 2. 36, 37. Acts 4. 4. Acts 10. 44.