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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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3. If Christ as our high Priest have received the elect from the Father, Thine they were, and thou gavest them to me; 1and as Redeemer entrusted to bring them in, he must send the Gospel to them as Mediator, and intercede, that ⟨p. 233⟩Apostles, Evangelists, Pastors, Teachers may be gifted with the Spirit, and sent to preach; for the giving of the Spirit that way is a fruit of Christs ascension and kingly triumphing, while as he led captivity captive, and gave gifts to men, as Intercessor, for perfecting of the Saints, and the work of the Ministry, Eph. 4. 11, 12, 13. that the Gentiles who believe not, and the blind, may see and be converted, Acts 26. 17, 18. Acts 13. 46, 47, 48. 1 Cor. 3. 5. Matth. 4. 15, 16. John 10. 16.
3. If Christ as our high Priest have received the elect from the Father, Thine they were, and thou gavest them to me; 1and as Redeemer entrusted to bring them in, he must send the Gospel to them as Mediator, and intercede, that ⟨p. 233⟩Apostles, Evangelists, Pastors, Teachers may be gifted with the Spirit, and sent to preach; for the giving of the Spirit that way is a fruit of Christs ascension and kingly triumphing, while as he led captivity captive, and gave gifts to men, as Intercessor, for perfecting of the Saints, and the work of the Ministery, Eph. 4. 11, 12, 13. that the Gentiles who believe not, and the blind, may see and be converted,