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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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Influences are acts of God concurring with created causes under him,1 and a sort of continued Creation; as God of nothing makes all things, so in his providence he gives a day to all borrowed beings, in their being preserved by him, and they are the Lords debtors, in being acted by him, or then they could not stir nor move.
INfluences are acts of God concurring with created causes under him,1 and a sort of continued Creation; as God of nothing makes all things, so in his providence he gives a day to all borrowed beings, in their being preserved by him, and they are the Lords debtors, in being acted by him, or then they could not stir nor move.
- 1What influences are.
2. The same free goodness (which is a sort of grace) which moved God to create the Sun and give it being, so also ••ts him to give influences to the motions and actings of the Sun; the end that moves the Man to make the Plough and the Cart, moves him to draw the Plough and drive the Cart by Beasts; so that in reference to the end, there is deb•tum quoddam connatural, some connatural dueness of influences: all Creatures are dead Cyphers which signify nothing,1 except the influence of God add a figure to them; and they lie dead, if he stir them not; Some Cows let not down their Milk but to their own Calves; and the Creatures are as Pictures and Idols who let out no Efficacy, no Virtue, except the Lord act upon them; Sometimes the Sea ebbs not, the Wind blows not, the Sun shines not, the Fire burns not, because this influence is (as it were) the Charm that is a wanting, and he hath a sort of a checklock upon all second causes.