A92141:928
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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3.1 Cain, Pharaoh, Saul, Magus, never complain of themselves: Heathens complain of sin original, not as mans sin, but as Socinians and Pelagians complain of it, as mans misery, and the Lords fault and sin (with reverence to his holiness) in that God and the step-mother nature have dealt worse with man in bringing him into the world naked, weeping, weak, sick, dying, then with bulls, that are born with thick skins, and have horns to defend them: Its a shameful accusing of God to deny original sin to be a transgression of the Law, such as deserveth death eternal. Ah, our pride, who dare bark against God when we should weep over our own wolfish and beastly nature.
- 1How men naturally complain of sin original.
Assert. 3. We do not so much in the use of means as our lameness doth permit.1 The Lord hath drawn a bill in the conscience, that the blind will not so much as open their eye-lids; we may be a law to our selves, Rom. 1. 14, 15. we know God (by nature) and glorify him not as God, Rom. 1. 2. 15. we may go many miles farther toward God by Natures light, but we sit still.
Assert. 3. We do not so much in the use of means as our lameness doth permit.1 The Lord hath drawn a bill in the conscience, that the blind will not so much as open their eye-lids; we may be a law to our selves, Rom. 1. 14, 15. we know God (by nature) and glorifie him not as God,