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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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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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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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If ye never had a sick night and a pained soul for sin, ye have not yet lighted upon Christ.
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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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The bloom fell off my branches and joy did cast off its flower
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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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Christ seeketh your help in your place give Him your hand.
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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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I assure you by the Lord, your adversaries shall get no advantage against you, except you sin, and offend your Lord, in your sufferings.
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When the race is ended, and the play is either won or lost, and ye are in the utmost circle and border of time, and shall put your foot within the march of eternity, all the good things of your short nightdream shall seem to you like ashes of a blaze of thorns or straw.
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Since He looked upon me my heart is not my own. He hath runaway to heaven with it.
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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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Consider, it is impossible that your idol sins and you can go to heaven together and that those who will not part with these do not indeed love Christ at the bottom, but only in word and show, which will not do the business.
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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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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 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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Desires going before conversion are not such as can calm a storming conscience.
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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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The night will close the door & fasten my anchor within the veil and I shall go away to sleep.
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Grow as a palm-tree on God's Mount Zion howbeit shaken with winds, yet the root is fast.
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