A92141:74
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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CHAP. II.
Gods acting influences. 2 His influences are in all creatures. 3 The sweet safety of believers in possible calamities. 4 Our atheism in reading the Book of providence, &c.
1. That there are strong influences upon all causes from the Lord, may be evinced. 1 From the holy tongue; the Hebrews use the verb in hiphil noting a double action; when one causeth another to act, to note influences, Deut. 32. 39. I cause to die, and I cause to live. Hannah so sings, 1 Sam. 2. 6. Jehovah causeth to die, and causeth to live; he causeth to go down to the grave, and to come up again; the Lord maketh poor, 1and he maketh rich; he maketh low, and he maketh high; so the passive verb is used. Which perfection, in short, is in that language above others, and when such actions are ascribed to God, they show that God hath an influence and impulsion, as the first cause in all actions; the Scripture herein abounds. The Greek language comes short of this, Joh. 5. 17. My Father, [Greek or Hebrew] worketh hitherto, & I work. And though he work all works in all creatures, yet in believers this is made true in Pauls sense,