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My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence.

Samuel Rutherford

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Samuel Rutherford
Died: 1661
Died: March 29
Author
Minister
Theologian
Samuel Rutherfoord
Omnipotence
Bed
Sleep
Upon
Faith

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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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My Lord Jesus has fully recompensed my sadness with his joys, my losses with his own presence. I find it a sweet and rich thing to exchange my sorrows with Christ's joys, my afflictions with that sweet peace I have with himself.
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The hope of heaven under troubles is like wind and sails to the soul.
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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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