A92141:919
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. As Gods active hardening of us is a punishment of sin, the Church may lawfully complain of it to God, and deprecate that and all the like sad evils of punishment; yet it shall never follow that God is the author or the cause of the sins of our being passively hardened of God, or of active hardening of our selves.
2. As Gods active hardning of us is a punishment of sin, the Church may lawfully complain of it to God, and deprecate that and all the like sad evils of punishment; yet it shall never follow that God is the author or the cause of the sins of our being passively hardned of God, or of active hardening of our selves.
3. Its a prayer for softening and grace not to err, return for thy servants sake. v. 16. thou, O Lord, art our Father, our Redeemer, thy Name is from everlasting.
3. Its a prayer for softning and grace not to erre, return for thy servants sake. v. 16. thou, O Lord, art our Father, our Redeemer, thy Name is from everlasting.
2. None of the Saints yielding to temptations do blame the Lords withdrawing, but blame themselves and clear the Lord. Psalm 51. Against thee, thee only have I sinned; thou hast taught me wisdom in the inward parts: here is a clearing of the Lord. Isa. 64. 6. We are all as an unclean thing; v. 4. since the beginning of the world—men have not perceived a God beside thee, 5, 8. So Lam. 3. 34.
2. None of the Saints yielding to temptations do blame the Lords withdrawing, but blame themselves and clear the Lord.