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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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Assert. 1. No habit of grace, or any habit as such, can reduce it self to acting, for it is well near to the nature of a power; the Sun, Moon, and Stars move not themselves, but are moved by some other powers whatever they be. 2. We are commanded to stir up the grace that is in us, 2 Tim. 1. 6. then must the habit lie dead as it were, except we improve it: the two talents do not make themselves four; the man to whom the talents were given must do that, Matth. 25.
Assert. 1. No habit of grace, or any habit as such, can reduce it self to acting, for it is well neer to the nature of a power; the Sun, Moon, and Stars move not themselves, but are moved by some other powers whatever they be. 2. We are commanded to stir up the grace that is in us, 2 Tim. 1. 6. then must the habit lie dead as it were, except we improve it: the two talents do not make themselves four; the man to whom the talents were given must do that, Matth. 25.
Assert. 12. It's not improbable that saving grace of it self, being not God, nor the holy Ghost himself, but a created thing, may, as to its own nature, perish and dry up. 1. For it is not to be trusted in; nor doth the weight of our standing against temptations consist in our stock, but in the Lords conserving power. Peter had saving faith, but that faith could neither keep Peter from falling, nor keep the faith from failing; but the standing of Peter's faith (Luke 22. 32.) is in Christs intercession; I have prayed for thee, le•t thy faith [Greek or Hebrew] be sunken down: that which needs a keeper without it self, cannot keep it self; for faith is but an instrumental keeper. But