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Faith's speculations to the worst and hardest, in point of resolution, are sweet.

Samuel Rutherford

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Samuel Rutherford
Died: 1661
Died: March 29
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Samuel Rutherfoord
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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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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 great Master Gardener, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, in a wonderful providence, with his own hand, planted me here, where by his grace, in this part of his vineyard, I grow and here I will abide till the great Master of the vineyard think fit to transplant me.
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Those who can take that crabbed tree handsomely upon their back, and fasten it on cannily, shall find it such a burden as wings unto a bird, or sails to a ship.
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The bloom fell off my branches and joy did cast off its flower
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The hope of heaven under troubles is like wind and sails to the soul.
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Jesus Christ came into my prison cell last night, and every stone flashed like a ruby.
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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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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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How soon would faith freeze without a cross!
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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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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 weightiest end of the cross of Christ that is laid upon you, lieth upon your strong Savior.
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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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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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The night will close the door & fasten my anchor within the veil and I shall go away to sleep.
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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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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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Heaven is a house full of miracles yea, of spectacles and images of free grace.
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