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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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Or 4. That they should have these influences of God they once lost.
Object. They are either condemned, because they believe not by their own strength, or because they believe not by a supernatural ⟨p. 135⟩grace, but both are physically impossible. Now we can all keep the Law whole our selves, justify our selves, live without sin.
Object. They are either condemned, because they believe not by their own strength, or because they believe not by a supernatural ⟨p. 135⟩grace, but both are physically impossible. Now we can all keep the Law whole our selves, justifie our selves, live without sin.
Ans. 1. They are condemned, because they believe not through a supernatural power, which power all are obliged to have; for it was once a concreated and gifted power: and the want of the power of believing is a culpable and sinful want of that image of God, which man is obliged to have, Rom. 3. 23.