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If ye never had a sick night and a pained soul for sin, ye have not yet lighted upon Christ.
Samuel Rutherford
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Samuel Rutherford
Died: 1661
Died: March 29
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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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Since He looked upon me my heart is not my own. He hath runaway to heaven with it.
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When the supreme magistrate will not execute the judgment of the Lord, those who made him supreme magistrate, under God, who have under God, sovereighn liberty to dispose of crowns and kingdoms, are to execute the judgment of the Lord, when wicked men make the law of God of none effect.
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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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