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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. Some do all their life dwell in the borders of hell, and never have fair sailing, nor fullness of assurance, until they be upon the shore; such have only Star-light, and are called to pure living by faith, Isa. 50. 10.
2. Some do all their life dwell in the borders of hell, and never have fair sayling, nor fulness of assurance, until they be upon the shoar; such have only Star-light, and are called to pure living by faith, Isa. 50. 10.
3. Some, once in all their life have one only remarkable night of wrestling with God, and prevail, as Jacob did; and some love so their prison that they take a sentence, à non judice, à non habente potestatem: the Law severed from Christ, is no judge at all to believers; the Law speaks to its own that are under the Law, Rom. 3. 19. the Jailer can command none but his own prisoners.
3. Some, once in all their life have one only remarkable night of wrestling with God, and prevail, as Jacob did; and some love so their prison that they take a sentence, à non judice, à non habente potestatem: the Law severed from Christ, is no judge at all to believers; the Law speaks to its own that are under the Law, Rom. 3. 19. the Jaylor can command none but his own prisoners.
4. Some are frequently taken into the house of Wine, ⟨p. 107⟩