A92141:520
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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But sin cannot so interdict or lay an arrestment upon influences as to conclude and restrain the free grace of God: 1nor does the Lord by the Saints falls, fall from his sovereignty and princedom of grace; yea, rather from the heightening and abounding of sin does the reign and Kingly power of grace shine the more; the more tumid the boil is, and the more the flesh about it burns and flames with the swelling of the humour, the more it is ripened for ⟨p. 159⟩breaking and healing. A Fever at the height begins to decline, as the Sea full at the outmost point of the shore does reflow and ebb again. See death and sin's reign, and grace and Christ's reign, Rom. 5. 15, 17, 21. See Ezech. 20. 23. Ezech. 16. 59, 60. Ezech. 26. 21, 22, 23. 1 Tim. 1. 13, 14, 15, 16, 17. make some ripeness for fullness of grace. Though Christ's reign cannot ebb or fall; But no thanks to the sinner, but great praise to him who makes medicine of the rotten and attry blood of our wounds.
But sin cannot so interdict or lay an arrestment upon influences as to conclude and restrain the free grace of God: 1nor does the Lord by the Saints falls, fall from his soveraignty and princedom of grace; yea, rather from the heightning and abounding of sin does the reign and Kingly power of grace shine the more; the more tumid the boyl is, and the more the flesh about it burns and flames with the swelling of the humour, the more it is ripened for ⟨p. 159⟩breaking and healing. A Feaver at the height begins to decline, as the Sea full at the outmost point of the shore does reflow and ebb again. See death and sin's reign, and grace and Christ's reign,