A92141:459
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. Whatever principle and power of believing be the ground of Gospel-unbelief which condemns men, the sons of Adam love that want, and such as are within the visible Church are condemned for their voluntary unbelief, John 5. 24. and John 5. 40. Ye will not come to me, that ye may be saved, [Greek or Hebrew]; As for the want of the power of believing, it is common to all mankind, to such as hear the Gospel, and to all the Heathen, and therefore cannot be the nearest formal principle of that Gospel-unbelief, for which they are condemned, who being within the visible Church, do not believe. And upon the same ground the culpable want of the power of believing, as of the rest of the parts of the image of God, must be a sin against the covenant of works, common to all mankind: now such as never heard the Gospel cannot be guilty of a sin proper to the covenant of grace.
2. Whatever principle and power of believing be the ground of Gospel-unbelief which condemns men, the sons of Adam love that want, and such as are within the visible Church are condemned for their voluntary unbelief, John 5. 24. and John 5. 40. Ye will not come to me, that ye may be saved, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉; As for the want of the power of believing, it is common to all mankind, to such as hear the Gospel, and to all the Heathen, and therefore cannot be the nearest formal principle of that Gospel-unbelief, for which they are condemned, who being within the visible Church, do not believe. And upon the same ground the culpable want of the power of believing, as of the rest of the parts of the image of God, must be a sin against the covenant of works, common to all mankind: now such as never heard the Gospel cannot be guilty of a sin proper to the covenant of grace.
Qu. What then? is that a just command that the Lord should charge, under the highest pain, even of the second death, the blind to see; that is, that the natural man believe, and in the mean time,