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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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Ans. 1. He requires the free act of believing, but withal he requires what is our duty and moral obligation, but not what is our physical strength to perform.
Ans. 1. He requires the free act of believing, but withall he requires what is our duty and moral obligation, but not what is our physical strength to perform.
2. He shows our impotency to wrestle out of the pit of misery, except he give us Evangelic strength to escape: nor is it the Lord's intention or decree that such as have fallen in the first Adam should rise again by the first Adam, or their own strength; or should pay of their own, the money that they wasted in Adam.
2. He shews our impotency to wrestle out of the pit of misery, except he give us Evangelick strength to escape: nor is it the Lord's intention or decree that such as have fallen in the first Adam should rise again by the first Adam, or their own strength; or should pay of their own, the money that they wasted in Adam.
Or 3. That they should have, or get again the same individual sanctified power, which they lost in Adam.