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Be not cast down. If ye saw Him who is standing on the shore, holding out His arms to welcome you to land, ye would wade, not only through a sea of wrongs, but through hell itself to be with Him.

Samuel Rutherford

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Samuel Rutherford
Died: 1661
Died: March 29
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