A92141:679
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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Assert. 3. It's not enough to do the same that heathens do; for if ye love them that love you, what reward have ye? and if ye salute your brethren only (not your enemies also) what do ye more then others? So Christ Matth. 5. to the multitude, and to the disciples, Matth. 5. 1, 46. Believers then should not stint themselves to only publicans and heathens duties. Samuel speaks as a man, as Samuel when he ⟨p. 211⟩calls Elijah the Lords anointed, 1 Sam. 16. and supposeth that he speaks as a Prophet; so doth Nathan, 1 Sam. 16. 6, 7. 2 Sam. 7. 3. There is a vast difference betwixt (thus saith the Prophet by the Lord) and (thus saith the man) and therefore where are we when our righteousness does not exceed the righteousness of the Scribes and Pharisees? The devils believe there is one God, and they do well, James 2. 19. and we fools say in our hearts there is no God, Psal. 14. 1. and do we well in so saying? The devils do tremble when they believe there is one God: ah, Satan believes in sad earnest when he believes! We sport, yea do not we laugh and mock at a Godhead, or at the word of a hell? The faith conveyed with godly trembling were good: Ah, that we know not the influences of God conjoined with the out-lettings of a gift, and of a temporary faith, and the influences that go along with the out-letting of saving grace, as touching the matter!
Assert. 3. It's not enough to doe the same that heathens doe; for if ye love them that love you, what reward have ye? and if ye salute your brethren only (not your enemies also) what do ye more then others? So Christ Matth. 5. to the multitude, and to the disciples,