Samuel Rutherford (43)
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It is an abasement of Christ, that he who gives such a ransom to justice for free-grace, should wait for a penny from sinners; that sinners must bid and buy, and engage him to give, and Christ say, you must give me more, I must sell, not give grace for nothing. Your penny-worths cannot roll about that everlasting wheel of free-grace, the decree of election, or bow or break Christ's free heart to save you, rather than another.https://www.monergism.com/christ-dying-and-drawing-sinners-himself-ebook
I covered (saith Christ) thy nakedness. O what a garment of glory is the imputed righteousness of Christ! Bring forth the best robe, and put on him. This is the white raiment that clothed the shame of our nakedness.https://www.monergism.com/christ-dying-and-drawing-sinners-himself-ebook
The manner of grace's working on saints is gracious, and so essentially free; as is evident in our first drawing to Christ, when many sins are forgiven, and so the soul loves much; and the sweetest burden in heaven, or out of heaven, is a burden of the love of Christhttps://www.monergism.com/christ-dying-and-drawing-sinners-himself-ebook
there lies and flows such a sea and ocean of infinite love about the heart, and in the bowels of Jesus Christ, as would over-save, and out-love infinite world of sinnershttps://www.monergism.com/christ-dying-and-drawing-sinners-himself-ebook
But for the ground, reason and cause on Christ's part of drawing, it is free-grace, and only free-grace; https://www.monergism.com/christ-dying-and-drawing-sinners-himself-ebook
Men have a sort of satisfaction in their natural condition: a whole man desires no physician. A dead man hath some negative content to lie in grave; he can have no acts of sorrow for want of life. (2.) We do not put forth any stirring of life or desire toward that which is naturally above us: a child in the belly hath no acts toward a crown or a kingdom in this life, because desires are bottomed and founded on nature; as an ape, or a horse, hath no desire to be a man.https://www.monergism.com/christ-dying-and-drawing-sinners-himself-ebook
We believe that repentance and mortification involve a real, personal turning from sin—a weakening of the lusts of the old nature, a dying to the pleasures of sin, and a growing desire for heavenly things. This flows from union with Christ in His death and resurrection, apprehended by faith.https://www.monergism.com/modest-survey-secrets-antinomianism-ebook
The Law commands us to love God with all our heart. That law required Abraham to offer his son, and Judah to return from exile— not because those acts were written in specific commandments, but because love for God requires obedience to whatever He commands. In this way, we are bound to obey God the Redeemer as well as God the Lawgiverhttps://www.monergism.com/modest-survey-secrets-antinomianism-ebook
pardoned sin is still sin. Sorrow for having pierced Christ is the Gospel groaning of the dove. This is godly sorrow.https://www.monergism.com/modest-survey-secrets-antinomianism-ebook
Grace is not lawless. True grace is: Active and obedient, Thankful and holy, Eager to honor the Lawgiver, Concerned for the glory of the gospel, Joyful and bold in Christ, Yet tender and reverent, as if there were no gospel— And free and fearless, as if there were no curse.https://www.monergism.com/modest-survey-secrets-antinomianism-ebook
Our obedience is not a means of earning righteousness, but a response to grace, flowing from the Spirit.https://www.monergism.com/modest-survey-secrets-antinomianism-ebook
Antinomians go too far by claiming that believers are now released from all obligation to obey—as if any call to duty were legalism.https://www.monergism.com/modest-survey-secrets-antinomianism-ebook
Contrary to the Antinomian view, the moral law must still be preached as binding believers to personal obediencehttps://www.monergism.com/modest-survey-secrets-antinomianism-ebook
We strongly reject the Antinomian claim that God sees no adultery, lying, blasphemy, or deceit in believers, even if they commit such sins. It is true that God does not see the sins of believers as a Judge to condemn them, but He most certainly sees them as a Father who disciplines His children.https://www.monergism.com/modest-survey-secrets-antinomianism-ebook
Antinomians also err by confusing justification and sanctification. They teach that believers are as inherently sinless as Christ Himself—that original sin, the old man, and the flesh are entirely gone.https://www.monergism.com/modest-survey-secrets-antinomianism-ebook
Justification is not the destruction of sin itself, but rather the legal removal of guilt and condemnation before God.https://www.monergism.com/modest-survey-secrets-antinomianism-ebook
Antinomians claim that the knowledge of actual and eternal forgiveness of sins was not revealed to the Old Testament saints— that it was a mystery hidden until the coming of the gospel. But this is false.https://www.monergism.com/modest-survey-secrets-antinomianism-ebook
The gospel does not lower the standard of perfection. It commands all that the law commands, in the same holiness and purity. "Be perfect as your heavenly Father is perfect," and "Be holy, for I am holy," remain gospel commands. The difference is in acceptance, not in requirement. The gospel pardons our failures, but it does not dispense with any of God's commands.https://www.monergism.com/modest-survey-secrets-antinomianism-ebook
The obedience commanded in the law as a covenant of works is the same obedience now required under the covenant of grace. The difference lies in how it is fulfilled: Under the law, it was to be performed by our own strength, out of love for God and reverence for His authority. Under the gospel, it is enabled by the grace of Christ and motivated not only by God's authority and love, but also by gratitude to a redeeming Savior.https://www.monergism.com/modest-survey-secrets-antinomianism-ebook
Christ clearly said that He did not come to free us from obedience to the least part of the law. The covenant of works is abrogated only in this respect: we are freed from the law as a means of justification and from its curse. That is as far as the Antinomian argument may go—no further.https://www.monergism.com/modest-survey-secrets-antinomianism-ebook
We do not teach that the moral law binds us merely as given by Moses, for if that were so, the ceremonial laws would bind us too —which is not the case for Christians. But we affirm that by the Ten Commandments delivered through Moses, God intended to bind all people, including Christians, to continual obedience until the end of the world.https://www.monergism.com/modest-survey-secrets-antinomianism-ebook
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Grace is not educed or extracted out of the potency of any created nature. Grace is born in heaven, and came from the inmost of the heart of Christ; it hath neither seed nor parent on earth, therefore the Lord challengeth it as his own
One of the softest pillows Christ hath is laid under His witnesses' head, though often they must set down their bare feet among thorns.The Loveliness of Christ
I hope to over-hope and over-believe my troubles.The Loveliness of Christ
The law, when infused with the compelling love and gracious authority of our Redeemer, and when approached with thankfulness to Christ who ransomed us—this moral motive—still binds us to obedience. Not only because of the content of its commands, but also because of the authority of the Lawgiver.https://www.monergism.com/modest-survey-secrets-antinomianism-ebook
Glorify the Lord in your sufferings, and take His banner of love, and spread it over you. Others will follow you, if they see you strong in the Lord; their courage shall take life from your Christian carriage.The Loveliness of Christ
If contentment were here, heaven were not heaven.The Loveliness of Christ
I beseech you in the Lord Jesus, to make every day more and more of Christ, and try your growth in the grace of God, and what ground ye win daily on corruption; for travellers are day by day, either advancing farther on, and nearer home, or else they go not right about to compass their journey.The Loveliness of Christ
Your rock doth not ebb and flow, but your sea.The Loveliness of Christ
It is our heaven to lay many weights and burdens upon Christ.The Loveliness of Christ
I am half content to have boils for my Lord Jesus's plaisters. Sickness hath this advantage, that it draweth our sweet Physician's hand and His holy and soft fingers to touch our withered and leper skins: it is a blessed fever that fetcheth Christ to the bedside --I think my Lord's, "How doest thou with it, sick body?" is worth all my pained nightsThe Loveliness of Christ
There are many heads lying in Christ's bosom, but here is room for yours among the rest.The Loveliness of Christ
Lay all your loads and your weights by faith upon Christ. Ease yourself, and let Him bear all. He can, He does, He will bear you.The Loveliness of Christ
God hath made many fair flowers, but the fairest of them all is heaven, and the flower of all flowers is Christ.The Loveliness of Christ
It is impossible to be submissive and religiously patient, if ye stay your thoughts down among the confused rollings and wheels of second causes, as O, the place! O, the time! O, if this had been, this had not followed! O, the linking of this accident with this time and place! Look up to the master motion and the first wheelThe Loveliness of Christ
Poor folks must either borrow or beg from the rich, and the only thing that commendeth sinners to Christ is extreme necessity and want. Christ's love is ready to make and provide a ransom and money for a poor body who hath lost his purse. "Ho, ye that have no money, come and buy" (Isaiah 55:1). That is the poor man's marketThe Loveliness of Christ
Men do lop the branches off their trees round about, to the end they may grow up high and tall. The Lord hath this way lopped your branch, in taking from you many children, to the end ye should grow upward, like one of the Lord's cedars.The Loveliness of Christ
Let Him make anything out of me, so being He be glorified in my salvation: for I know I am made for Him.The Loveliness of Christ
I see grace groweth best in winter.The Loveliness of Christ
O, pity for evermore that there should be such an one as Christ Jesus, so boundless, so bottomless, and so incomparable in infinite excellency, and sweetness, and so few to take Him! O, ye poor dry dead souls, why will ye not come hither with your toom vessels and your empty souls to this huge, and fair, and deep, and sweet well of life, and fill all your toom vessels?The Loveliness of Christ
There is no sweeter fellowship with Christ than to bring our wounds and our sores to Him.The Loveliness of Christ
In regard of that which was taken from Christ, it was a sad hour; which I desire to be considered thus. 1. The most spiritual life that ever was, the life of him, who saw and enjoyed God in a personal union, was vailed and covered. (1.) Posession in many degrees was lessened: but in jure, in right, and in the foundation, not removed. 2. The sense and actual fruition of God, in vision, was over-clouded, but life in the fountain stood safe in the blessed union. #. The most direful effects, in breaking, bruising, and grinding the Son of God, between the millstones of divine wrath, were here; yet the infinite love and heart of God, remained the same to Christ, without any shadow of variation or change. God's hand was against Christ, his heart was for him. 4. Hence his saddest sufferings were by divine dispensation and economy. God could not hate the Son of his love; in a free dispensation, he pursued in wrath the surety, and loved the Son of God. 5. It cannot be determined, what that wall of separation, that covering and vail was, that went between the two united natures, the union personal still remaining entire, how the Godhead suspended its divine and soul rejoicing influence, and the man Christ suffered to the bottom of the highest and deepest pain, to the full satisfaction of divine justice.Christ Dying, and Drawing Sinners to Himself, 154-155
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