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The good Husbandman may pluck His rose & gather in His lily.
Samuel Rutherford
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Samuel Rutherford
Died: 1661
Died: March 29
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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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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.
Samuel Rutherford
See that you buy the field where the Pearl is sell all, and make a purchase of salvation. Think it not easy: for it is a steep ascent to eternal glory: many are lying dead by the way, slain with security.
Samuel Rutherford
I wonder many times that ever a child of God should have a sad heart, considering what their Lord is preparing for them.
Samuel Rutherford
Grow as a palm-tree on God's Mount Zion howbeit shaken with winds, yet the root is fast.
Samuel Rutherford
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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The cross of Christ is the sweetest burden that I ever bore it is such a burden as wings are to a bird, or sails to a ship, to carry me forward to my harbor.
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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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No created powers can mar our Lord Jesus' music, nor spill our song of joy. Let us then be glad and rejoice in the salvation of our Lord
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Jesus Christ came into my prison cell last night, and every stone flashed like a ruby.
Samuel Rutherford
I find my Lord Jesus cometh not in the precise way that I lay wait for Him. He hath a manner of His own. Oh, how high are His ways above my ways
Samuel Rutherford
Since He looked upon me my heart is not my own. He hath runaway to heaven with it.
Samuel Rutherford
Faith's speculations to the worst and hardest, in point of resolution, are sweet.
Samuel Rutherford
We are as near to heaven as we are far from self, and far from the love of a sinful world.
Samuel Rutherford
They lose nothing who gain Christ.
Samuel Rutherford
My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence.
Samuel Rutherford
The secret formula of the saints: When I am in the cellar of affliction, I look for the Lord's choicest wines.
Samuel Rutherford
The bloom fell off my branches and joy did cast off its flower
Samuel Rutherford
The great Master Gardener, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, in a wonderful providence, with his own hand, planted me here, where by his grace, in this part of his vineyard, I grow and here I will abide till the great Master of the vineyard think fit to transplant me.
Samuel Rutherford
If ye never had a sick night and a pained soul for sin, ye have not yet lighted upon Christ.
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