A92141:906
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. 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.
2. That his grace shall fortifie them against attrocious 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 relie 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 wisedom and holy soveraignty shall judge it fit for their humiliation and the promoting of the work of their salvation, and especially for the glory of holy Soveraignty: 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.
Assert. 4. Its not lawful to engage to run the ways of the Lords commandments, leaning to the habit of grace, and the stock within the Believer; Peter relied on this, I am ready ([Greek or Hebrew]) nothing habitual grace and faith) to go with thee to prison and to death,