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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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Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
2. To wait on the Spirit's flowings, that is with a less measure of the spirit to fetch more, and by two talents to gain four, is so lawful a waiting for the breathings of the spirit, as to plough and wait patiently for the harvest, to sail and wait till the Jewels and Gold come home, and the Ship land, is commendable; this is to bring forth fruit with patience, [Greek or Hebrew].
2. To wait on the Spirit's flowings, that is with a lesse measure of the spirit to fetch more, and by two talents to gain four, is so lawful a waiting for the breathings of the spirit, as to plow and wait patiently for the harvest, to sayl and wait till the Jewels and Gold come home, and the Ship land, is commendable; this is to bring forth fruit with patience, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉.
3. To wait upon the flowings of the Spirit, which out of holy Sovereignty comes in a larger measure, then is ordinary, as an high spring-tide; as my heart is confirmed or prepared, my heart is confirmed or prepared. Is 1. To ⟨p. 72⟩welcome and adore the Lord in these high manifestations, and wisdom requires that the soul which is taken into the Kings chamber, and finds many outlettings, and sweet and rich access in praying, should multiply bills, and being heard for his own pardon as David was, Psal. 51. should put in a bill for building of the walls of Zion, and so should the soul being in a higher strain, and admitted to a more then ordinary feast of fat things, eat and drink more abundantly, Cant. 5. 1. as Esther finding the King on a strain of graciousness to her; Esther, what is thy Petition? follows her suit, and lays hold on the opportunity, and her suit is not for the safety of one single man, but for the lives of the whole Church of God, even all the Jews. 2. To leave off wrestling too soon is a sort of violence done, and a damming up of the mighty flowings of the Spirit; No doubt a lazy pursuing of the victory, when we prevail with God, is a mighty neglect.