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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.

Samuel Rutherford

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Samuel Rutherford
Died: 1661
Died: March 29
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