A92141:79
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 that Jehovah be Lord of mans actings, then man be lord of Jehovah's sovereignty.
And that Jehovah be Lord of mans actings, then man be lord of Jehovah's soveraignity.
2. Beside that, every being must be from the being of beings, and so every action natural or supernatural must be attended with suitable influences from God; so the Scripture is clear,
2. Beside that, every being must be from the being of beings, and so every action natural or supernatural must be attended with sutable influences from God; so the Scripture is clear,
That 1. God can serve a sort of law-inhibition upon all creatures, that they act not; and what he takes from them, except the withdrawing of his own influences, we know not; Job 9. 7. He commandeth the Sun and it riseth not, and sealeth up the Stars. Psal. 106. 9. He rebuked the red Sea also, and it was dried up. God, by the interposition of the faith of his own, will not have strong walls to stand, Heb. 11. 30. but they must fall; nor Lions to eat the prey, Verse 33. nor a violent fire to burn, nor the sword to devour, 34.