A92141:749
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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2. The graciousness of the Lords holy nature revealed, Exod. 34. 6. The Lord God merciful and gracious, long-suffering, and abundant in goodness and truth to fallen man (for he hath revealed no pardoning grace and mercy to fallen Angels; nor is that the scope of Moses, Exo. 34. or of the Scripture any where.) Now if so, he as the Lord is under some necessity (upon supposal that he created men and Angels) to declare his pure immixed justice in the fallen Angels; so by some necessity of decency suitable to his goodness and holy nature he must choose some to glory, and give them inherent habits of grace, that he may carry them to heaven in a way of voluntary obedience: so that upon supposal he hath so declared himself to Angels and men, there must be glorious emanations and out-goings of free grace, both to ordain some to glory, and beautify them with the habit of faith to believe in him that justifies the sinner, and habits of sanctification. I say, upon supposal he so reveal himself in his word; otherwise, absolutely and simply the the contrary order, that he had placed fallen Angels in mans room, and men in the place of fallen Angels, had been as just and good as that which now is.
2. The graciousness of the Lords holy nature revealed, Exod. 34. 6. The Lord God merciful and gracious, long-suffering, and abundant in goodness and truth to fallen man (for he hath revealed no pardoning grace and mercy to fallen Angels; nor is that the scope of Moses, Exo. 34. or of the Scripture any where.) Now if so, he as the Lord is under some necessity (upon supposal that he created men and Angels) to declare his pure immixed justice in the fallen Angels; so by some necessity of decency suitable to his goodnesse and holy nature he must choose some to glory, and give them inherent habits of grace, that he may carry them to heaven in a way of voluntary obedience: so that upon supposal he hath so declared himself to Angels and men, there must be glorious emanations and out-goings of free grace, both to ordain some to glory, and beautifie them with the habit of faith to believe in him that justifies the sinner, and habits of sanctification. I say, upon supposal he so reveal himself in his word; otherwise, absolutely and simply the the contrary order, that he had placed fallen Angels in mans room, and men in the place of fallen Angels, had been as just and good as that which now is.