A92141:391
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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CHAP. XIII.
1. Of striving against Sovereignty. 2. Some striving is lawful. 3. A gracious behaviour it is to be woe at God's forsaking. 4. To repine at Sovereignty in hearing or not hearing of prayer. 5. Contradicting. 6. Murmuring. 7. Counter-working of Sovereignty is dreadful. 8. Opposing the operations of the Spirit. 9. Despairing. 10. Reproaching proud disputing. 11. Submission to want of influences. 12. What way the Lord recompenseth desertions. 13. Closing with influences of the Law-rebukes.
1. Of striving against Soveraignty. 2. Some striving is lawful. 3. A gracious behaviour it is to be woe at God's forsaking. 4. To repine at Soveraignty in hearing or not hearing of prayer. 5. Contradicting. 6. Murmuring. 7. Counter-working of Soveraignty is dreadful. 8. Opposing the operations of the Spirit. 9. Dispairing. 10. Reproaching proud disputing. 11. Submission to want of influences. 12. What way the Lord recompenseth desertions. 13. Closing with influences of the Law-rebukes.
Elihu most gravely speaketh, Job 33. 13. Why dost thou strive with him, for he gives not an account of any of his matters? The word [Greek or Hebrew] is to strive and contend in words only, as Mercerus and Pagnin, either in judgement or out of judgement, jurgare. And its strange that any dare chide or scold with the sovereign Lord.