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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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Ob. 2. But by the adversaries way it follows that there is a foregoing reason why the will of Adam made choice of that sinful act because God predeterminated the will thereunto, and the reason of the first omission, or not consideration in Adam, or his sleepiness, is ob defectum praedeterminationis divina, because of the defect of divine predetermination. Therefore because (2.) God withdrew his actual influence of predetermination, it was no more in the dependent power of Adam to obey that, Eat not, then the Sun can move when God draws away his actual influence, so must the original of sin be reduced on God. So strange.
Ob. 2. But by the adversaries way it follows that there is a foregoing reason why the will of Adam made choice of that sinful act because God predeterminated the will thereunto, and the reason of the first omission, or not consideration in Adam, or his sleepiness, is ob defectum praedeterminationis divina, because of the defect of divine praedetermination. Therefore because (2.) God withdrew his actual influence of praedetermination, it was no more in the dependent power of Adam to obey that, Eat not, then the Sun can move when God draws away his actual influence, so must the original of sin be reduced on God. So strange.
Answ. 1. A reason ratio why any man sins, is, in good Grammar, a moral motive inducing a man to sin, and that works by way of persuasion. Let not the Reader be persuaded that we teach that the real influence of God, or that his holy concourse any way is a moral motive of obedience, or of sin, as if Adam had been persuaded to sin because he saw and felt the Lord did first withdraw his concourse or influence whither it predeterminate or move by predetermination, or collateral joining, therefore Adam was morally induced to sin; this is a goodly dream.
Answ. 1. A reason ratio why any man sins, is, in good Grammer, a moral motive inducing a man to sin, and that works by way of perswasion. Let not the Reader be perswaded that we teach that the real influence of God, or that his holy concourse any way is a moral motive of obedience, or of sin, as if Adam had been perswaded to sin because he saw and felt the Lord did first withdraw his concourse or influence whither it praedeterminate or move by praedetermination, or collateral joyning, therefore Adam was morally induced to sin; this is a goodly dream.