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It is in some respect greater love in Jesus to sanctify than to justify, for He maketh us most like Himself, in His own essential portraiture and image in sanctifying us.
Samuel Rutherford
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Samuel Rutherford
Died: 1661
Died: March 29
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I urge you a nearer communion with Christ, and a growing communion. There are curtains to be opened in Christ that we have never seen before... Therefore dig deep, and sweat, and labor. Take pains for Him, and set aside as much time as you can in each day for Him.
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Grow as a palm-tree on God's Mount Zion howbeit shaken with winds, yet the root is fast.
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Set not your heart upon the world, since God hath not made it your portion.
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If Christ Jesus be the periode, the end and the lodging-home at the end of your journey, there is no fear ye go to a friend . . . ye may look death in the face with joy.
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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.
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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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The secret formula of the saints: When I am in the cellar of affliction, I look for the Lord's choicest wines.
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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.
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Be not cast down. If ye saw Him who is standing on the shore, holding out His arms to welcome you to land, ye would wade, not only through a sea of wrongs, but through hell itself to be with Him.
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I have been benefited by praying for others for by making an errand to God for them I have gotten something for myself.
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Those who can take that crabbed tree handsomely upon their back, and fasten it on cannily, shall find it such a burden as wings unto a bird, or sails to a ship.
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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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Our little time of suffering is not worthy of our first night's welcome home to Heaven.
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The weightiest end of the cross of Christ that is laid upon you, lieth upon your strong Savior.
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How soon would faith freeze without a cross!
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Since He looked upon me my heart is not my own. He hath runaway to heaven with it.
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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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Desires going before conversion are not such as can calm a storming conscience.
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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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