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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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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,1 God judicially puts out his eyes, and out of his absolute freedom refuses to restore to him the faculty of seeing.
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,1 God judicially puts out his eyes, and out of his absolute freedome refuses to restore to him the faculty of seeing.
- 1Q What power of believing we want. In what sense the Lord may charge men to believe who now in Adam have loosed power of believing.Q What power of believing we want. In what sense the Lord may charge men to believe who now in Adam have losed power of believing.
Ans. Suppose 1. That the want of soul power to see is both a sin, (the contrary of it being moral goodness a part of original righteousness and of the concreated image of God, to wit, of righteousness and holiness, Ephes. 4. 23, 24. Colos. 3. 10. which makes a man lovely to God;) as also a punishment inflicted, as Pharaoh's obstinate hardness is both ⟨p. 136⟩a heinous sin, and also judicially afflicted for former sins: And then the holy Law may as well charge men to be holy and able to believe, though they be judicially blind: As God may charge Pharaoh's heart to be soft, and moved with rods, and to yield to the command, (Let my people go) when God judicially hardens the heart.