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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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And 2. the great design of free grace in Christ must in these two bring him under a holy necessity to bring his many children to glory; for the decree of election is an act of the three persons, John 10. 16. Other sheep I have [Greek or Hebrew], and they are not yet in his actual possession, but he hath an actual right to them, I have paid a ransom for them, them also I must bring in [Greek or Hebrew], Christ is under a necessity of driving them in, then is Christ under a necessity of a decree common to him with the Father and the Spirit, to breath upon and cherish the habit of grace, that his great design of free grace in the work of redemption may stand sure, and attain its graciously designed end; as also he is
And 2. the great designe of free grace in Christ must in these two bring him under a holy necessity to bring his many children to glory; for the decree of election is an act of the three persons, John 10. 16. Other sheep I have 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, and they are not yet in his actual possession, but he hath an actual right to them, I have paid a ransome for them, them also I must bring in 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, Christ is under a necessity of driving them in, then is Christ under a necessity of a decree common to him with the Father and the Spirit, to breath upon and cherish the habit of grace, that his great designe of free grace in the work of redemption may stand sure, and attain its graciously designed end; as also he is
2. Under an official and mediatory necessity to the chosen, to bestow on them the freely given habit of grace; and so I judge,1 with reverence of the judgment of others, that Christ hath an advocation and office of intercession for the elect, even such as are not yet actually converted: not that he extends the same acts of advocation to the chosen converted, and to the chosen not yet converted.