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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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5. Christs blood is a ransom, not to buy us from wrath only, and from the evil of punishment, but also from the evil of iniquity and sin, and so from the bondage of our vain conversation, 1 Pet. 1. 18. from all iniquity, Tit. 2. 19. from living to sin, 1 Pet. 2. 24. and so to purchase the grace of the new birth, and to make us Kings and Priests to God, Rev. 1. 5, 6.
5. Christs blood is a ransome, not to buy us from wrath only, and from the evil of punishment, but also from the evil of iniquity and sin, and so from the bondage of our vain conversation, 1 Pet. 1. 18. from all iniquity, Tit. 2. 19. from living to sin, 1 Pet. 2. 24. and so to purchase the grace of the new birth, and to make us Kings and Priests to God, Rev. 1. 5, 6.
6. The Spirit poured on the thirsty ground, Isa. 44. 3. on the house of David, Zech. 12. 10. is either a gift of nature or a grace. The former can be said by none but Pelagians and Socinians; for if the only principle of the life of God, and the new birth, be a work of our industry, Christ died in vain; if it be a free grace, we must receive it out of Christs fullness; For out of his fullness we all receive, John 1. 16.1