A92141:59
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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Ob. Whereas they say that Adam materially and interpretatively in the effect wants the praedeterminating influence of God. I ask whether they understand the effect and material and interpretative consent or the formal and direct actual consent, if the former be said, it is a ridiculous clavering, for they say that Adam desired interpretatively ⟨image 16⟩and materially to want the influence of God quatenus in se, as he desired to want the influence of God, if the latter be said, the necessity of sinning stands, for if God deny his influence to one of the opposites, and giveth it to the other, it is a necessity the strength of our argument is that, that is not to be imputed to Adam as sin, which was both necessary and inevitable.
Ob. Whereas they say that Adam materially and interpretatively in the effect wants the praedeterminating influence of God. I ask whether they understand the effect and material and interpretative consent or the formal and direct actual consent, if the former be said, it is a ridiculous clavering, for they say that Adam desired interpretatively ⟨image 16⟩and materially to want the influence of God quatenus in se, as he desired to want the influence of God, if the latter be said, the necessity of sinning stands, for if God deny his influence to one of the opposites, and giveth it to the other, it is a necessit• the strength of our argument is that, that is not to be imputed to Adam as sin, which was both necessary and inevitable.
Ans. 1. The argument is weak, for one and the same voluntary act of consenting to eat in Adam is referred to, 1. Directly to the Law, thou shalt not eat, Gen. 2. 17. and it is formally a sinful act contrary to the commandment.
Ans. 1. The argument is weake, for one and the same voluntary act of consenting to eat in Adam is referred to, 1. Directly to the Law, thou shalt not eat,