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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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5. Some are all their life creeping children, yet saved: a sincere affection in Nicodemus consists with much ignorance, yet is not the faith rotten.
6. It belongs to sovereignty that the little vessels of small quantity hang upon Christ, as well as the great, Isa. 22. 24. and that the lambs, as well as the stronger of the flock, are cared for by him, Isa. 40. 11. and that the bruised reeds have their dependence on him.
6. It belongs to soveraignty that the little vessels of small quantity hang upon Christ, as well as the great, Isa. 22. 24. and that the lambs, as well as the stronger of the flock, are cared for by him, Isa. 40. 11. and that the bruised reeds have their dependence on him.
7. To this head of sovereignty belong the various kinds of desertions;1 As 1. None are so deserted as the fallen Angels; they have done for ever and ever with all influences of grace, and are eternally outlaws from the Court of the King, who is head of principalities and powers, Jude ver. 6. reserved [Greek or Hebrew] in everlasting chains, &c. 2 Pet. 2. 4. O but the chains of Devils are fiery and hellish.