A92141:929
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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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, Rom. 1. 2. 15. we may go many miles farther toward God by Natures light, but we sit still.
- 1We do not so much as by strength of nature we may do, and we add to our own lameness, and unjustly complain of God for our sinful impotency.
2. Yea, we blow out the candle; and here the cripple and lame man breaks his own legs and arms the second time, and complains of the Physician Christ that he will not heal him against his will: he who adds to his sickness a poison drink, cannot father his death upon the Physician. Ah, we stir not broken legs and arms upon and towards the Physician Christ.
2. Yea, we blow out the candle; and here the criple and lame man breaks his own legs and arms the second time, and complains of the Physitian Christ that he will not heal him against his will: he who adds to his sickness a poyson drink, cannot father his death upon the Physitian. Ah, we stir not broken legs and arms upon and towards the Physitian Christ.