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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. The Lord lays on rebukes, where he knows Cain cannot answer, Gen. 4. 6. Why art thou wroth? if thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? So the Lord speaks to Pharaoh, Exod. 9. 17. As yet exaltest thou thy self against my people, that thou wilt not let them go? Deut. 32. 6. Do ye thus requite the Lord, O foolish people and unwise? Psal. 95. 10. Forty years long have I been grieved with this generation; it's a people that do err in heart, they have not known my ways. So saith Elijah to Ahab, 1 King. 21. 20. Thou hast sold thy self to work evil in the sight of the Lord. Psal. 4. 2. O ye sons of men, how long will ye turn my glory into shame? how long will ye follow vanity and seek leasing? Psal. 58. 4. They are like the deaf adder, which stoppeth her ear. 5. which will not hearken to the voice of the charmer. And because we are ready to excuse our selves from our impotency, the holy Ghost bears this upon them as a charge, Jerem. 13. 23. Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the Leopard his spots? then may ye do good that are accustomed to do evil. 2 Pet. 2. 14. Having eyes full of adultery, that cannot cease to sin, Deut. 29. 2, 3.
2. The Lord layes on rebukes, where he knowes Cain cannot answer, Gen. 4. 6. Why art thou wroth? if thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? So the Lord speaks to Pharaoh, Exod. 9. 17. As yet exaltest thou thy self against my people, that thou wilt not let them goe?