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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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3.1 Acknowledge and adore the holy spirit as God, and follow not Ananias to play the devil to the Holy Ghost, to try if the holy Spirit shall find out hypocrisy, Acts 5. Satan is the great [Greek or Hebrew], Matth. 4. 3. who tempted the Son; And a man may ride so near the rotten margin on the bank of a mighty River, as he will try the highest of free grace; why but I may do this and be pardoned? Nay, the holy Spirit never said, Sin at will with greediness, thou wast once a believer. It's dreadful to put a trial upon the worth of an infinite ransom. 2. Upon the most noble and ⟨p. 178⟩transcendent actings of the spirit: this God hath done in me, therefore I have liberty to sin. Tempted free grace is a transgression with so loud a cry, its heard all Heaven over.2
3.1 Acknowledge and adore the holy spirit as God, and follow not Ananias to play the divel to the Holy Ghost, to try if the holy Spirit shall find out hypocrisie, Acts 5. Satan is the great 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, Matth. 4. 3. who tempted the Son; And a man may ride so neer the rotten margin on the bank of a mighty River, as he will try the highest of free grace; why but I may doe this and be pardoned? Nay, the holy Spirit never said, Sin at will with greediness, thou wast once a believer. It's dreadful to put a tryal upon the worth of an infinite ransome. 2. Upon the most noble and ⟨p. 178⟩transcendent actings of the spirit: this God hath done in me, therefore I have liberty to sin. Tempted free grace is a transgression with so loud a cry, its heard all Heaven over.