A92141:766
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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There's an instinct of natures logic, framing hellish consequences; Christ loves not me, therefore I will not treat with Christ,1 nor come in terms of communing with him; and withal there is no anxious missing of inherent habits; it's not from the Spirit of God ever to be missing objective grace, which is eternally in God, and never in a paining way to miss subjective grace inherent: who is angry? who hath resisted his will? Rom. 9. And it's Satan's method first to miss Gods love to you, and make a quarrel with God for that, before you miss your love to God, and to the Redeemer Christ, and make a plea with your self for not loving of lovely Jesus Christ. The servants word is Matth. 25. I knew thou wast a hard man. Knowest thou not thy self to be a servant graceless and malignant?
There's an instinct of natures logick, framing hellish consequences; Christ loves not me, therefore I wil not treat with Christ,1 nor come in terms of communing with him; and withal there is no anxious missing of inherent habits; it's not from the Spirit of God ever to be missing objective grace, which is eternally in God, and never in a paining way to miss subjective grace inherent: who is angry? who hath resisted his will? Rom. 9. And it's Satans method first to miss Gods love to you, and make a quarrel with God for that, before you miss your love to God, and to the Redeemer Christ, and make a plea with your self for not loving of lovely Jesus Christ. The servants word is Matth. 25. I knew thou wast a hard man. Knowest thou not thy self to be a servant gracelesse and malignant?
- 1First to frame doubts about predestination t• life; and to miss eternal love before we miss inherent saving grace is Satans method.First to frame doubts about predestination t life; and to miss eternall love before we miss inherent saving grace is Satans method.