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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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2 Divis. Some influences of God are ordinis naturalis, natural; he commands the Sun to rise; he sends rain, and joins his concurrence to the things of nature. Some are ordinis supernaturalis, supernatural; such as are of the Father choosing. 2. Of the Son. If Christ died without the camp, that he might sanctify the people with his blood, Heb. 13. 12. and if by his will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all, 1Heb. 10. 10. then sure sanctifying influences must be bought and purchased for his chosen people. The doubt is yet answered more fully; what a wise man hath deliberately bought, and with the price of blood, he must bestow that for the end for which he hath bought it. Then Christ must bestow saving influences for sanctifying his people. We look too much to what we cannot do, and too little in this business to what Christ must do, upon the necessity of his offices, of his bargain of redemption that he hath closed; he must work in his own to will and to do until the end.
2 Divis. Some influences of God are ordinis naturalis, natural; he commands the Sun to rise; he sends rain, and joynes his concurrence to the things of nature. Some are ordinis supernaturalis, supernatural; such as are of the Father choosing. 2. Of the Son. If Christ died without the camp, that he might sanctifie the people with his blood, Heb. 13. 12. and if by his will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all, 1Heb. 10. 10. then sure sanctifying influences must be bought and purchased for his chosen people. The doubt is yet answered more fully; what a wise man hath deliberately bought, and with the price of blood, he must bestow that for the end for which he hath bought it. Then Christ must bestow saving influences for sanctifying his people. We look too much to what we cannot doe, and too little in this business to what Christ must doe, upon the necessity of his offices, of his bargain of redemption that he hath closed; he must work in his own to will and to doe until the end.