A92141:657
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. We could not in the other first providence, which was before sin entered into the world, have claimed to influences of glory from the fullness of the anointing that is in Christ; for Christ then was not the public good, and communicable treasure of his redeemed, he was not our God, nor our Emmanuel, nor our Goel or Kinsman-redeemer, but a reserved and estranged God to be made our God by our own earning and law-merit.
2. We could not in the other first providence, which was before sin entred into the world, have claimed to influences of glory from the fulness of the anointing that is in Christ; for Christ then was not the publick good, and communicable treasure of his redeemed, he was not our God, nor our Emmanuel, nor our Goel or Kinsman-redeemer, but a reserved and estranged God to be made our God by our own earning and law-merit.
3. The Lord Jesus was infinite God, and the fountain as large as now; but he was not our own fountain, nor the influences and waterings due to in our witherings as now.
4. Christ is made the new great Lord, Factor, and public Agent for his Church, to rule all for their good and salvation; and heaven, and earth, and the world, and life, and death, and things present, and things to come, are put over in Christs hands; the morrow, the next years deliverance, the believers outgoing in death, are all made over to Christ, and then in Christ all things are ours, 1 Cor. 3. 21. and the watering of my witheredness, and the quickening of my deadness hic & nunc, in this same moment of time is first Christs, and I got it seasonably from him in a better time and way then according to my time and way.
4. Christ is made the new great Lord, Factor, and publick Agent for his Church, to rule all for their good and salvation; and heaven, and earth, and the world, and life, and death, and things present, and things to come, are put over in Christs hands; the morrow, the next years deliverance, the believers outgoing in death, are all made over to Christ, and then in Christ all things are ours,