A92141:464
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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4. Suppose the man does first with his own hand put out his own eyes, as we did in Adam; and that the relation of penalty follows this blindness, by the will of the just Creator, as its here.
4. Suppose the man does first with his own hand put out his own eyes, as we did in Adam; and that the relation of penalty follows this blindnesse, by the will of the just Creator, as its here.
5. Suppose the blind man gave virtual consent to the voluntarily loved want of the lovely and gracious art of the only Physician, who can restore his sight, as the case is here.
5. Suppose the blind man gave virtual consent to the voluntarily loved want of the lovely and gracious art of the onely Physician, who can restore his sight, as the case is here.
6. Suppose that the Creator of eyes hath once given the faculty of seeing, and that he is not obliged to restore it ever when the man casts it away; and that the man a thousand times winks,1 and shuts his eyes, and hates to be anointed; and you shall see there is no ground to quarrel with the just and holy Lord.
6. Suppose that the Creator of eyes hath once given the facultie of seeing, and that he is not obliged to restore it ever when the man casts it away; and that the man a thousand times winks,1 and shuts his eyes, and hates to be anointed; and you shall see there is no ground to quarrel with the just and holy Lord.