A92141:753
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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Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
1. Because Christ as Mediator and high Priest prays for them, and so that habits of grace and influences may be bestowed on them, John 17. 20. Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word. Nor can it be said that Christ intends not they should reap any mediatory fruit of his prayer, till they be born and actually believe; for he prays and intercedes for their conversion and faith, they yet being in nature and unrenewed; for that is true in some sense, Christ prays for their faith actual, when it is in being, and shall actually be assaulted, that it may not fail them under temptation; and so that prayer of Christ for the disciples and Peter, stands good for all believers, when they shall actually believe and be winnowed, as Peter was: the millions of them neither did believe nor were born, when Christ as an high ⟨p. 232⟩Priest offered to the father both the one & the other prayer; but that Christ in no sense intercedes for the chosen till they be converted and actually believe, cannot be defended. For
1. Because Christ as Mediator and high Priest prayes for them, and so that habits of grace and influences may be bestowed on them, John 17. 20. Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word. Nor can it be said that Christ intends not they should reap any mediatory fruit of his prayer, till they be born and actually believe; for he prayes and intercedes for their conversion and faith, they yet being in nature and unrenewed; for that is true in some sense, Christ prays for their faith actual, when it is in being, and shall actually be assaulted, that it may not fail them under temptation; and so that prayer of Christ for the disciples and Peter, stands good for all believers, when they shall actually believe and be winnowed, as Peter was: the millions of them neither did believe nor were born, when Christ as an high ⟨p. 232⟩Priest offered to the father both the one & the other prayer; but that Christ in no sense intercedes for the chosen till they be converted and actually believe, cannot be defended. For