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I seldom made an errand to God for another but I got something for myself.

Samuel Rutherford

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Samuel Rutherford
Died: 1661
Died: March 29
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Samuel Rutherfoord
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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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Set not your heart upon the world, since God hath not made it your portion.
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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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We take nothing to the grave with us, but a good or evil conscience... It is true, terrors of conscience cast us down and yet without terrors of conscience we cannot be raised up again.
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Christ seeketh your help in your place give Him your hand.
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The devil is but a whetstone to sharpen the faith and patience of the saints.-
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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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I assure you by the Lord, your adversaries shall get no advantage against you, except you sin, and offend your Lord, in your sufferings.
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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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I wonder many times that ever a child of God should have a sad heart, considering what their Lord is preparing for them.
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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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Every day we may see some new thing in Christ. His love hath neither brim nor bottom.
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