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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. He condemns himself for it, v. 18. I know in me, that is, in my flesh dwelleth no good.
3. He condemes himself for it, v. 18. I know in me, that is, in my flesh dwelleth no good.
4. He complains of it 23. I am led captive to the law of sin.
4. He complaines of it 23. I am led captive to the law of sin.
5. His complaining so grows, that he ends in an out-cry, O wretched man that I am, who shall deliver me from the body of this death? 1and triumphs victoriously in Christ, v. 25. From which it is clear that Paul and the flesh part open enemies, and that there is no treaty of peace betwixt the spirit and the sinful disposition flowing from the flesh, as if the flesh and the spirit were two free, co-equal, independent Lords and Princes, and each must have his own kingdom and princedom to himself, and the one must not encroach upon the other; for the flesh and its complices must down, and the spirit must be up in Christ: Nor is there any arbitrary agreement of the matter; for the spirit yields no liberty to sin, nor gives away one jot or tittle of the holy Law, to say Herod by the new covenant may keep his lust and Herodias, so he gladly hear John the Baptist.
5. His complaining so grows, that he ends in an out-cry, O wretched man that I am, who shall deliver me from the body of this death? 1and triumphs victoriously in Christ, v. 25. From which it is clear that Paul and the flesh part open enemies, and that there is no treaty of peace betwixt the spirit and the sinful disposition flowing from the flesh, as if the flesh and the spirit were two free, co-equal, independent Lords and Princes, and each must have his own kingdome and princedome to himself, and the one must not encroach upon the other; for the flesh and its complices must down, and the spirit must be up in Christ: Nor is there any arbitrary agreement of the matter; for the spirit yields no liberty to sin, nor gives away one jot or tittle of the holy Law, to say Herod by the new covenant may keep his lust and Herodias, so he gladly hear John the Baptist.