A92141:904
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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Obj. 1The faith of believers is to rely upon the promised help of Christ in every temptation. Then may the believer pray to be delivered, not in the general, but in ⟨p. 267⟩every particular not to be tempted above his strength.
- 1How we are to rely on God for influences.
Answ. The promise of preserving the elect, and of giving promised perseverance Isa. 54. 10. Jer. 31. 25. & 32. 40. to them now converted is absolute, that the Lord will put his fear in their hearts that they shall never depart from him.
2. That his grace shall fortify them against atrocious sins committed with the full strength of consent and inconsistent with the seed of God, and the inbiding of that seed in them with the holy anointing, 1 Joh. 2. 20, 27. c. 3. v. 9. But there is not any promise in the New Covenant that David and Peter shall be delivered from particular sins, hic & nunc, such as may consist with the habit of grace and the seed of God. There faith is to rely upon God and his grace that he shall not lead them into temptation, hic & nunc, in such particular sins, not absolutely, but conditionally; so the Lord in his wisdom and holy sovereignty shall judge it fit for their humiliation and the promoting of the work of their salvation, and especially for the glory of holy Sovereignty: they are to believe that the Lord shall absolutely confer upon them fundamental, and amply necessary influences of grace, but not that he shall bestow on them absolutely non-fundamental influences.