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Heaven is a house full of miracles yea, of spectacles and images of free grace.

Samuel Rutherford

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Samuel Rutherford
Died: 1661
Died: March 29
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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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I see Christ's love is so kingly, that it will not abide a marrow it must have a throne all alone in the soul.
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Be not cast down. If ye saw Him who is standing on the shore, holding out His arms to welcome you to land, ye would wade, not only through a sea of wrongs, but through hell itself to be with Him.
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Faith's speculations to the worst and hardest, in point of resolution, are sweet.
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After winter comes the summer. After night comes the dawn. And after every storm, there comes clear, open skies.
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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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Show yourself a Christian by suffering without murmuring. In patience possess your soul - they lose nothing who gain Christ.
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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 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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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 devil is but a whetstone to sharpen the faith and patience of the saints.-
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It is in some respect greater love in Jesus to sanctify than to justify, for He maketh us most like Himself, in His own essential portraiture and image in sanctifying us.
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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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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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The good Husbandman may pluck His rose & gather in His lily.
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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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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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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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