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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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Desires going before conversion are not such as can calm a storming conscience.
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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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I find it most true that the greatest temptation outside of hell is to live without temptations if water stands, it rots faith is the better for the sharp winter storm in its face and grace withers without adversity. The devil is but God's master fencer to teach us to handle our weapons.
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If ye never had a sick night and a pained soul for sin, ye have not yet lighted upon 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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The devil is but a whetstone to sharpen the faith and patience of the saints.-
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Christ and His cross are not separable in this life, howbeit Christ and His cross part at heaven's door, for there is no house-room for crosses in heaven. One tear, one sigh, one sad heart, one fear, one loss, one thought of trouble cannot find lodging there.
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You must take a house beside the Physician. It will be a miracle if ye be the first sick that Christ hath put away uncured.
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The hope of heaven under troubles is like wind and sails to the soul.
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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 good Husbandman may pluck His rose & gather in His lily.
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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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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.
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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 faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence.
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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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Grace grows best in winter.
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Why should I tremble at the plough of my Lord, that maketh deep furrows on my soul? I know He is no idle husbandman, He purposeth a crop.
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We are as near to heaven as we are far from self, and far from the love of a sinful world.
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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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