A92141:406
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.
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?
4. What do they who curse the day, the stars, the twilight, the birth? as Job chap. 3. A gracious heart saith, let the Lord be the Lord, and closes with all the attributes of God, and with all the influences of Omnipotency, wisdom, goodness, and justice on men, and of love, mercy, grace, bounty, forbearance to the Saints, and to their own soul; this is to sing mercy, and to sing judgement: whereas its a note of Atheism to wish and vote out of the world God, his attributes, and all the acting and influences of mercy, justice, truth, grace, sovereignty, and to say, Its not the Lord, the Lord can neither do good, neither can be do evil,