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The breathings which the Father gives into the heart of the child, they are breathed back unto him, in the same spirit of life; in the living sense, in the quickening power. Nothing of man's wisdom, nothing of man's invention, nothing according to man's will, nothing that would 39 please the flesh, or seem glorious in its eye, is offered up here; but the exhortations, or directions, or reproofs that spring up in God's linrht, in God's wisdom, they are given forth in the leadings, and by the gui...dance of his Spirit, and they reach to the hearts of those, to whom he pleaseth to direct them. The seasons of the true worship stand in the will of God. They are gifts, and the time of them stands in the will of the giver. Prayer is a gift. A man cannot pray when he will; but he is to watch and to wait, when the Father will kindle in him living breath- ings towards himself. So the word of God, whether of exhortation or instruction, is a gift, which is to be waited for, and then to be given forth in the life and strength of that Spirit which caused it to spring.
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