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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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2. How proud and shameless are we to deny this running botch of sin original, and say it is no sin? would it cure a man of a raging pest-boil, to say it was no pest, to give it another name? It's a part of original sin in our Atheism to belie the Lord, and say it is soul-sickness, but it is not sin; it deserves not the second death. Infants then, dying Infants, are no debtors to the complete ransom of blood that Christ gave to deliver them from the wrath: And when our Saviour blessed Infants, and said, Of such is the kingdom of heaven, his sense must be, that infants departing this life in infancy, hold heaven by no Charter of Christ, the heir of all; are not washed from sin, are not delivered from wrath to come, nor obtain salvation by ⟨p. 141⟩our Lord Jesus Christ, as it is in 1 Thessal. 5. 9.
2. How proud and shamelesse are we to deny this running botch of sin original, and say it is no sin? would it cure a man of a raging pest-boile, to say it was no pest, to give it another name? It's a part of original sin in our Atheism to belye the Lord, and say it is soul-sicknesse, but it is not sin; it deserves not the second death. Infants then, dying Infants, are no debtors to the compleat ransome of blood that Christ gave to deliver them from the wrath: And when our Saviour blessed Infants, and said, Of such is the kingdom of heaven, his sense must be, that infants departing this life in infancie, hold heaven by no Charter of Christ, the heir of all; are not washed from sin, are not delivered from wrath to come, nor obtain salvation by ⟨p. 141⟩our Lord Jesus Christ, as it is in 1 Thessal. 5. 9.
3. What debt is this; who of Angels or men can pay the hire of free love to Christ? ye were born beasts, Tigers, Lions, Dogs, and broods of Satan and the Serpents seed, and Christ hath made you sons of God, Kings and Priests to God, heirs of life, co-heirs with Christ, partakers of the divine nature, the first-born of God written in heaven.