A92141:563
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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
2. Are not men inexcusable, when they will not await the wind, and lie at the tide, and use means, but refuse to command body and legs to present themselves to the sea-side and the ship? The body and legs have no influence on the winds, so they declare that they hate the covenant and bargain of grace as well as the Law, who refuse to stir in his ways.
2. Are not men inexcusable, when they will not await the wind, and lie at the tide, and use meanes, but refuse to command body and legs to present themselves to the sea-side and the ship? The body and legs have no influence on the winds, so they declare that they hate the covenant and bargain of grace as well as the Law, who refuse to stir in his ways.
3. The first giving of the spirit is like the growing of lilies and flowers wild on the mountains,1 plough or spade can do nothing to cause them so to grow in the garden and the infield. Pelagians must not get their will, their common universal grace is not the spirit of Adoption; and those who say men can pray who never received the spirit of Adoption (happily they may complement with the Lord in word) but
3. The first giving of the spirit is like the growing of lillies and flowers wilde on the mountaines,1 plough or spade can do nothing to cause them so to grow in the garden and the infield. Pelagians must not get their will, their common universal grace is not the spirit of Adoption; and those who say men can pray who never received the spirit of Adoption (happily they may complement with the Lord in word) but
- 1The spirit prevenes nature; nature prevenes not the spirit.