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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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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.
As 2. They act at his command, Psal. 78. 26. He caused the East wind to blow in the Heavens, and by his power he brought in the South wind; whether this be by a strong ⟨p. 6⟩terminating influence,1 which displeaseth adversaries of grace and providence, or some other way, we contend not for words; but if the Scripture hold forth, as it doth, that the Lord by his strong and invincible dominion doth indeclinably, and without any possible failing bring forth his decreed effect, some impulsion of God immanent, transient, or mixed, which is terminate upon all second causes there must be; for as he can and doth hinder natural causes to work, as the Sun to move towards his downgoing,