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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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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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My Lord Jesus has fully recompensed my sadness with his joys, my losses with his own presence. I find it a sweet and rich thing to exchange my sorrows with Christ's joys, my afflictions with that sweet peace I have with himself.
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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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Every man by nature is a freeman born by nature no man cometh out of the womb under any civil subjection to king, prince, or judge.
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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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Our little time of suffering is not worthy of our first night's welcome home to Heaven.
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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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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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Faith's speculations to the worst and hardest, in point of resolution, are sweet.
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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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The night will close the door & fasten my anchor within the veil and I shall go away to sleep.
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The hope of heaven under troubles is like wind and sails to the soul.
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There is nothing left to us but to see how we may be approved of Him, and how we may roll the weight of our weak souls in well-doing upon Him, who is God omnipotent.
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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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The bloom fell off my branches and joy did cast off its flower
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I had but one joy, the apple of the eye of my delights , to preach Christ my Lord
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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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