A92141:667
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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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.
Answ. Nor is it evil that the Lords fire in Zion be hot and fierce, that he may remove the dross, though the coals that melt the gold be digged out of hell, and their flaming against his people sinful and cruel; it is not only in relation to him, who is above his laws, binding Angels and men; not evil, but equally done in wisdom and righteousness; for as much may be said by carnal reason in the Lords efficacious permission of sin, which he may hinder in the reprobate, as well as some way he hindered it in the elect Angels, and in chosen heirs of glory. 1. Against the wisdom. 2. goodness. 3. sovereignty. 4. righteousness. 5. and love of God, as Jesuits, Arminians, Socinians, and others say against the holiness of God. No earthly Father but he should fail both against natural love, goodness, and wisdom, should he permit, if he could hinder, his children to commit sins, which shall procure their eternal misery and woe. Let all flesh be silent, here is holy dominion.
Answ. Nor is it evil that the Lords fire in Sion be hot and fierce, that he may remove the dross, though the coals that melt the gold be digged out of hell, and their flaming against his people sinful and cruel; it is not only in relation to him, who is above his laws, binding Angels and men; not evil, but equally done in wisedome and righteousness; for as much may be said by carnal reason in the Lords efficacious permission of sin, which he may hinder in the reprobate, as well as some way he hindered it in the elect Angels, and in chosen heirs of glory. 1. Against the wisedome. 2. goodness. 3. soveraignty. 4. righteousness. 5. and love of God, as Jesuits, Arminians, Socinians, and others say against the holiness of God. No earthly Father but he should fail both against natural love, goodness, and wisedome, should he permit, if he could hinder, his children to commit sins, which shall procure their eternal misery and woe. Let all flesh be silent, here is holy dominion.
8.1 Divis. Some influences of Christ are fundamental, and simply necessary, and principally promised; some not fundamental, and less necessary. As