A92141:870
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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But Christ hath 2. not departed from, and gone out of the ceremonial law, as touching the doctrinal teaching thereof to lead us to Christ; and therefore that law should be read, preached, believed, and stands clothed with the authority of Canonic Scripture, otherwise Libertines must cashier the books of Moses.
But Christ hath 2. not departed from, and gone out of the ceremonial law, as touching the doctrinal teaching thereof to lead us to Christ; and therefore that law should be read, preached, believed, and stands cloathed with the authority of Canonick Scripture, otherwise Libertines must cashier the books of Moses.
3. Nor hath Christ removed out of the letter of the ⟨p. 261⟩Scripture Law and Gospel, to teach us no more thereby, but only by the Spirits instruction; for even the doctrine of the Law curses, Deut. 27. Deut. 28. are a part of the immediately inspired word of God shining with the same majesty, holiness, divinity, convincing power, as the letter of the Gospel, Psal. 19. 7, 8, 9, 10.
4. Christ hath not removed (as Saltmarsh, Dell, and others teach) from the Law moral the divine obligation to holiness and righteousness; for it lays the same bands and obligations to the duties of love and obedience to God, and of love, truth, mercy, righteousness, soberness, to man, which was upon us in Moses time; for that way grace should teach looseness, lawless wantonness, not holiness. We would press good works, holiness, godly walking, on all, as they would see God, and not be trees hewen down and cast in the fire. Suppose we could not with School accuracy rid marches as touching the necessity thereof; but we are to beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, justification by works.