A92141:716
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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4.1 This new fixed disposition is given through the merit of Christ, Acts 5. 30. Whom ye slew and hanged on a tree, v. 31. Him hath God exalted with his right hand to be a Prince and a Saviour, for to give repentance to Israel and forgiveness of sins. Then is Christ the giver of repentance, and of all spiritual habits, not simply, but as crucified and made a meriting Prince.
- 1The habit of grace is given through the merit and grace of Christ.
2. The Father hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings ⟨p. 220⟩in heavenly places in Christ; then also with the habit of sanctification.
3. We are sanctified by the the willing offering that Christ made, when he gave himself a sacrifice once for all, Heb. 10. 8, 9, 10. and the people sanctified by his blood, Heb. 13. 12. Then in the merit of this blood must we have the habit of sanctification.