A92141:466
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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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.
- 1Original sin is sin properly so called.
Q. Whereas the contrary opinion that denies original fin to be sin, as Pelagians, Arminians, Socinians, 1. Contradicts Scripture, which calls it both sin and iniquity, ⟨p. 137⟩Psal.1 51. 5. Uncleanness, Job 14. 4. The frame of the heart evil. 2. Only evil. 3. Continually. 4. From the womb, Gen. 6. 5. Gen. 8. 21. Offence, Rom. 5. 15, 17, 18