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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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Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
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.
7. To this head of soveraignty 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 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 in everlasting chains, &c. 2 Pet. 2. 4. O but the chains of Divels are fiery and hellish.
- 1Various kinds of desertions.
2. Next to them are reprobate men, who cast off Christ, and turn into Satan's camp. No saving influences are due to such as are reprobate to good works. Ah, beware of habitual hating of Christ, and his house, dependers and seed: yet are there here degrees; for none are in that measure deserted or blasphemers of the holy Ghost.
2. Next to them are reprobate men, who cast off Christ, and turn into Satans camp. No saving influences are due to such as are reprobate to good works. Ah, beware of habitual hating of Christ, and his house, dependers and seed: yet are there here degrees; for none are in that measure deserted or blasphemers of the holy Ghost.