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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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2. Nor wrong we the Lord, or free-will either, to say God decreed that Joseph should be sold by his brethren: David cursed and reproached by Shimei: Judah carried away captive by the Babylonians: Israel oppressed by the rod of God, the Assyrians: Job spoiled by the Chaldeans and Sabeans: Christ Jesus crucified by Herod, Pilate, and the Jews. Otherwise the Lord could yield no comfort in his word to the godly, when oppressed by the wicked, but the like, Comfort not your selves, my dear people, under persecutions from the wicked, for I permitted these evils, but these calamities befall you before I knew them, contrary to my will and holy determination, I cannot without forcing of wicked will hinder them, or safely and indeclinably secure and save you; 1therefore stay your prayers to me, and believe not that I can avert these evils. Here is a most cursed necessity which our adversaries lay on God, while as they would eschew an holy, harmless, and most wise necessity of providence.
2. Nor wrong we the Lord, or free-will either, to say God decreed that Joseph should be sold by his brethren: David cursed and reproached by Shimei: Judah carried away captive by the Babylonians: Israel oppressed by the rod of God, the Asyrians: Job spoiled by the Caldeans and Sabeans: Christ Jesus crucified by Herod, Pilate, and the Jews. Otherwise the Lord could yield no comfort in his word to the godly, when oppressed by the wicked, but the like, Comfort not your selves, my dear people, under persecutions from the wicked, for I permitted these evils, but these calamities befal you before I knew them, contrary to my will and holy determination, I cannot without forcing of wicked will hinder them, or safely and indeclinably secure and save you; 1therefore stay your prayers to me, and believe not that I can avert these evils. Here is a most cursed necessity which our adversaries lay on God, while as they would eschew an holy, harmless, and most wise necessity of providence.
- 1Joan. Strangius de voluntate & actionibus dei circa peccatum, l. 2. c. 9. p. 211. Sequitur dari priorem actionem cur voluntas (Adam) elegerit primum actum vitiosum quecunque ille sit; nempe quia deus cum praemovit ac praedeterminavit ad istam electionem aut Actionem, &c.