A92141:407
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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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, Zeph. 1.
4. What doe 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, wisedome, 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 Atheisme to wish and vote out of the world God, his attributes, and all the acting and influences of mercy, justice, truth, grace, soveraignty, and to say, Its not the Lord, the Lord can neither doe good, neither can be doe evil, Zeph. 1.
8. So would we beware to fight with the Lord's dispensations ⟨p. 116⟩of grace; he is Lord and Sovereign disposer of his own comforts: whether we look upon comforts as duties commanded, 2 Thes. 5. 17. Jer. 31. 15. or as a reward of duties from the Lord,