A92141:719
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. If the conscience be purged by the blood of sprinkling from dead works, Heb. 9. 14. then is the heart of stone removed, which is nothing but this deadness in us before our conversion and new birth; and if this be done, so that we are sprinkled with clean water, cleansed from all our filthiness and idols, and the heart of stone taken out of us, and a new heart of flesh, even a new heart given us, not for our own doings, but for his own names sake, Ezek. 36. 22, 25, 26, 32. that is, from the precious and only saving grace of Jesus Christ, as it is exponed in the New Testament, Acts 3. 16, 25, 26. Acts 4. 12. Rom. 3. 24, 25. Ephes. 1. 17. Coloss. 1. 13. Acts 10. 42, 43. So for Davids sake is exponed in the New Testament for the Son of Davids sake; and for the Lords names sake, is all one with this, for the merits and death of Christ.
4. If the conscience be purged by the blood of sprinkling from dead works, Heb. 9. 14. then is the heart of stone removed, which is nothing but this deadness in us before our conversion and new birth; and if this be done, so that we are sprinkled with clean water, cleansed from all our filthinesse and idols, and the heart of stone taken out of us, and a new heart of flesh, even a new heart given us, not for our own doings, but for his own names sake, Ezek. 36. 22, 25, 26, 32. that is, from the precious and onely saving grace of Jesus Christ, as it is exponed in the New Testament,