A92141:469
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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3. It makes us children of wrath (Eph. 2. 3.) by nature, as others are. If it be temporary wrath only, and Infants be free of sin that condemns to the second death; Christ bare in his body the sin of no Infants; Christ died for sinners only, the just for the unjust, 1 Pet. 3. 18. Rom. 4. 25. Isa. 53. 6, 10. Infants are not sinners, nor are sucking Infants laved and washed in his blood, as others, Rev. 1. 5. ⟨p. 138⟩Nor are they sinners whom Christ came to save, 1 Tim. 1. 15.1 Nor are Infants any of the many, or of the all, for whom Christ gave himself a ransom, Mat. 20. 28. 1 Tim. 2. 6. And since the Kingdom of Heaven belongs to Infants, and they are to be baptized, Act. 2. 38, 39. there must be some other name by which Infants must be saved, then by the name of Jesus Christ, contrary to Act. 4. 12. For what need is there of Christ's righteousness, and of remission of sins, and redemption in Christ's blood, Rom. 3. 25. Ephes. 1. 7. Col. 1. 13, 14. to Infants, if sin original be no sin.