A92141:405
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.
8. There is a proud disputing with God when we dare give in a bill against God. 1. Ah, he takes me for his enemy. 2. He hath left off to be gracious; An ungracious God is no God. O the pride of a tempted mind that dare oppose the very existence of God.
3. Some say, God hath need to be instructed to govern the world better, otherwise what needed that be said by Isa. 40. 13. Who hath directed the Spirit of the Lord, or being his counsellor, hath taught him? Ver. 14. With whom took he counsel, who instructed him, and taught him in the path of judgement, and taught him knowledge, and showed him the way of understanding? Or what needs that Job 21. 22. Shall any teach God knowledge? seeing he judgeth things that are high. What a God is an unknowing God, who needs a lesson from the creature, or from some higher God? and then who taught that other God who is supposed to be higher then the most high? what a carnal mind is this that chaseth the Almighty God out of the world?
3. Some say, God hath need to be instructed to govern the world better, otherwise what needed that be said by Isa. 40. 13. Who hath directed the Spirit of the Lord, or being his counsellour, hath taught him? Ver. 14. With whom took he counsell, who instructed him, and taught him in the path of judgement, and taught him knowledge, and shewed him the way of understanding? Or what needs that Job 21. 22. Shall any teach God knowledge? seeing he judgeth things that are high. What a God is an unknowing God, who needs a lesson from the creature, or from some higher God? and then who taught that other God who is supposed to be higher then the most high? what a carnal mind is this that chaseth the Almighty God out of the world?