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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.

Samuel Rutherford

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Samuel Rutherford
Died: 1661
Died: March 29
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Samuel Rutherfoord
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There is nothing that will make you a Christian indeed, but a taste of the sweetness of Christ.
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Ye have lost a child--nay, she is not lost to you, who is found to Christ she is not sent away, but only sent before like unto a star, which going out of our sight, doth not die and vanish, but shineth in another hemisphere.
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