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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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3. Though God move and must act in all, in causes natural and free, so as, in some sense, he must concur in willing and nilling;1 yet he out of Sovereignty of grace, stands more aloof in bestowing influences to gracious and supernatural nilling and willing, (for Predestination and free Election to glory here hath place;) for that he prepared in his eternal decree; so many outlettings and emanations ⟨p. 10⟩of free acts of grace to carry to glory so many selected Angels and Men, and denied these outgoings of free love to others, he intending they should be to Angels and Men, both their grace and song of praise; he hath not given out such refined influences of free love to other Creatures, to the motions of Sun and Moon to the Seas ebbing and flowing.
3. Though God move and must act in all, in causes natural and free, so as, in some sense, he must concur in willing and nilling;1 yet he out of Soveraignty of grace, stands more aloofe in bestowing influences to gracious and supernatural nilling and willing, (for Predestination and free Election to glory here hath place;) for that he prepared in his eternal decree; so many outlettings and emanations ⟨p. 10⟩of free acts of grace to carry to glory so many selected Angels and Men, and denyed these outgoings of free love to others, he intending they should be to Angels and Men, both their grace and song of praise; he hath not given out such refined influences of free love to other Creatures, to the motions of Sun and Moon to the Seas ebbing and flowing.
- 1Influences of God for nilling and willing most rare and excellent.
4. Q. What then is the fountain cause of gracious influences and breathings of the Spirit?