A92141:939
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. There is something which we call fetching of the wind, and casting of a board again to wind to the right harbour, and it is a sort of courting the wind, and that is the case of the soul that would live upon influences, its fit to pant and gape, and carefully wait on for the holy breathings of the Lord; could we wait in the way that the Spirit uses to come, and attend him in ordinances, he must come that way, as Zacheus cast himself in that way of Christ; providence places two blind beggars in Christs way, & the Lord thereby bestows the Son of Davids mercy on them; and providence placed the woman of Samaria at the well of Jacob, and Christ must needs go through Samaria, and her way, she looked for water from Jacobs well, and looked not for the Messiah; yet she meets with him, and feels his influences before she goes hence: but we are with ordinances to lie at the tide, and wait for, and seek the flowings of ⟨p. 274⟩the Spirit; in one and the same work the sounding of the word and the breathing of the Spirit may be attended, Psalm 130. 5. I wait for the Lord, my soul doth wait. Whether in his real helping and hearing, my crying out of the deeps, or on his saving actings upon the dead heart, and in his word do I hope: there may be a casting of the goods in the sea to help the ship to land: there is failing of the eyes in waiting for God, Psalm 69. 3. Psalm 119. 8. My soul fainteth for thy salvation. 13. I opened my mouth & panted, for I longed for thy salvation; I cannot create breathings. But the man in a pit or dungeon, though he can make no help to himself, yet he can cry and make use of arms and legs when a rope is cast down to him.
3. There is something which we call fetching of the wind, and casting of a board again to wind to the right harbour, and it is a sort of courting the wind, and that is the case of the soul that would live upon influences, its fit to pant and gape, and carefully wait on for the holy breathings of the Lord; could we wait in the way that the Spirit uses to come, and attend him in ordinances, he must come that way, as Zacheus cast himself in that way of Christ; providence places two blind beggars in Christs way, & the Lord thereby bestows the Son of Davids mercy on them; and providence placed the woman of Samaria at the well of Jacob, and Christ must needs go thorow Samaria, and her way, she looked for water from Jacobs well, and looked not for the Messiah; yet she meets with him, and feels his influences before she goes hence: but we are with ordinances to lie at the tide, and wait for, and seek the flowings of