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Since He looked upon me my heart is not my own. He hath runaway to heaven with it.
Samuel Rutherford
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Samuel Rutherford
Died: 1661
Died: March 29
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Oh thrice fools are we who like new-born princes weeping in the cradle know not that there is a kingdom before them then let our Lord's sweet hand square us and hammer us and strike off the knots of pride self-love and world-worship and infidelity that He may make us stones and pillars in His Father's house.
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Every man by nature is a freeman born by nature no man cometh out of the womb under any civil subjection to king, prince, or judge.
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Christ chargeth me to believe His daylight at midnight.
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When the race is ended, and the play is either won or lost, and ye are in the utmost circle and border of time, and shall put your foot within the march of eternity, all the good things of your short nightdream shall seem to you like ashes of a blaze of thorns or straw.
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They lose nothing who gain Christ.
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I had but one joy, the apple of the eye of my delights , to preach Christ my Lord
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I think it is possible on earth to build a young, new Jerusalem, a little, new heaven of this surpassing love. God, either send me more of this love, or take me quickly over the water, where I may be filled with his love.
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It is certain that this is not only good which the Almighty has done, but that it is best He hath reckoned all your steps to heaven.
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Set not your heart upon the world, since God hath not made it your portion.
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Let your children be as so many flowers, borrowed from God. If the flowers die or wither, thank God for a summer loan of them.
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Think it not hard if you get not your will, nor your delights in this life God will have you to rejoice in nothing but himself.
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We are as near to heaven as we are far from self, and far from the love of a sinful world.
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Show yourself a Christian by suffering without murmuring. In patience possess your soul - they lose nothing who gain Christ.
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The bloom fell off my branches and joy did cast off its flower
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Consider, it is impossible that your idol sins and you can go to heaven together and that those who will not part with these do not indeed love Christ at the bottom, but only in word and show, which will not do the business.
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Grace grows best in winter.
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The hope of heaven under troubles is like wind and sails to the soul.
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When the supreme magistrate will not execute the judgment of the Lord, those who made him supreme magistrate, under God, who have under God, sovereighn liberty to dispose of crowns and kingdoms, are to execute the judgment of the Lord, when wicked men make the law of God of none effect.
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