A92141:9
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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CONTENTS.
God intends that no man should be saved by the Law. p. 1. c. 1. p. 1. True liberty, grace loves to be restrained from evil, p. 1. c. 1. p. 2. That the first Adam was to pray for perseverance is not clear. p. 1. c. 1. p. 3. Adam was to rely on God for perseverance, but as promised by the covenant of works. idem. Our grace in the second Adam choicer then that in the first idem. The Lords Influences in all, p. 1. c. 2. p. 4. Infinite almost Influences of God p. 1. c. 2. p. 7. To look not spiritually on influences is brutish, p. 1. c. 2. p. 8. What influences are, p. 1. c. 3. p. 9. Influences of God are suitable to Gods end idem Influences of God for nilling, and willing, most rare and excellent, idem. How Christ and the promised spirit must be the causes of gracious influences, p. 1. c. 3. p. 10. We are to believe that he who purchased by his merit the habit of grace shall give suitable Influences, and to fear also our propension to fall, p. 1. c. 3. p. 12. The promise of Influences in Christ, p. 1. c. 3. p. 13. The necessity of Influences, p. 1. c. 4. p. 15. Reasons of renewed Influences, p. 1. c. 4. p. 16. The first Adam might want Influences, the second cannot, idem. Satan's actions always destitute of Influences, p. 1. c. 4. p. 17. How God withdraws Influences in particular acts hic et nunc and yet hath promised to bestow Influences in the regenerate, ⟨image 3⟩by promise, p. 1. c. 4. p. 18. The Lord acts on us by his Influence, but we act not on him, ib. How we cannot pray away desertion and the tryings, withdrawings, and yet are we to pray submissively for the removal of desertion, and are to pray against withdrawings, p. 1. c. 4. p. 19. The Lords withdrawings makes not the Holy One the author of sin nor destroys liberty, p. 1. c. 5. p. 20. The cause why God is not chargeable with the act of disobedience, and man is chargeable, p. 1. c. 5. p. 21. Our interpretative wanting of Influences, and our formal sinning in the same act, cleared, p. 1. c. 5. p. 24. The sovereignty of God is destroyed by Pelagians to the end they may exalt mans free will, p. 1. c. 5. p. 25. Of our acts and spiritual duties under the spiritual withdrawings of God, p. 1. c. 6. 26. We are to do our part in duties under withdrawings, grace sweetens duties, p. 1. c. 6. p. 29. What sovereignty is, and how it differs from omnipotency, p. 1. c. 7. p. 33.