A92141:152
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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Obj. 2. When there is an utter ceasing of the spirit, it would appear that the spirit forbids us to lift at his work, until the Spirit the only Master of work be there himself.
Ans. One of the three is ever a work, either the Father is waiting till the Son pray, John 14. or the Son is commanding the breathings of the Spirit.1 It is some casual work that the sinner is the passive object of the Spirit; there is never an utter ceasing of the Spirit. There are some habitual stirrings of the Seed of God under the ceasing of actual influence, as the ripe Apple inclines to fall off the Tree when there is no shaking of it; the Ship is a mending in the Shore when she sails not: and if it were no more, but one of the three is a working about a Child of God; its not to be despised; For who knows the thoughts of Christ and his pleading in Heaven for such as suffer the evil of affliction for Christ? And if a believer wrestle under deadness, Christ much more is a work to help a more spiritual sufferer, to wit, one that is as it were a patient under sin and flesh, and the withdrawing of God.
Ans. One of the three is ever a work, either the Father is waiting till the Son pray, John 14. or the Son is commanding the breathings of the Spirit.1 It is some casual work that the sinner is the passive object of the Spirit; there is never an utter ceasing of the Spirit. There are some habitual stirrings of the Seed of God under the ceasing of actual influence, as the ripe Apple enclines to fall off the Tree when there is no shaking of it; the Ship is a mending in the Shore when she sails not: and if it were no more, but one of the three is a working about a Child of God; its not to be despised; For who knows the thoughts of Christ and his pleading in Heaven for such as suffer the evil of affliction for Christ? And if a believer wrestle under deadnesse, Christ much more is a work to help a more spiritual sufferer, to wit, one that is as it were a patient under sin and flesh, and the withdrawing of God.