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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.

Samuel Rutherford

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Samuel Rutherford
Died: 1661
Died: March 29
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The bloom fell off my branches and joy did cast off its flower
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