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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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But 2. The Fathers drawing sinners to Christ, John 6. 44. the Fathers teaching men, and causing them to hear the learning of the Father, John 6. 45. holds forth the influences of the Father upon sinners. Christs word is remarkable, John 15.1 1. My Father is the husband-man. When Christs Father ploughs the sinner, and breaks up the fallow ground of the heart, there must be influences there: for then is the Father fitting the soil for Christ, Col. 1. 12. ⟨p. 161⟩Giving thanks unto the Father, 2who hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the Saints in light. 13. Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us to the kingdom of the Son of his love. That must be a mighty strong influence of the Father that works the mans translation; and the daily work of the care of the Father is much in promoving his work, John 15. 2. Every branch that beareth fruit he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit. Let then the question be, what talk ye to us of predeterminating influences that are above us in the hand of a Sovereign God?3 How shall our short arm reach these influences? We must have influences of the Father that are at our hand, and under the power of our free-will.
But 2. The Fathers drawing sinners to Christ, Iohn 6. 44. the Fathers teaching men, and causing them to hear the learning of the Father,