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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.

Samuel Rutherford

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Samuel Rutherford
Died: 1661
Died: March 29
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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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The good Husbandman may pluck His rose & gather in His lily.
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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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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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They lose nothing who gain Christ.
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He who duly esteemeth Christ, is a noble bidder, and so a noble and liberal buyer.
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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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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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Our little time of suffering is not worthy of our first night's welcome home to Heaven.
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Christ chargeth me to believe His daylight at midnight.
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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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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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Faith's speculations to the worst and hardest, in point of resolution, are sweet.
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The bloom fell off my branches and joy did cast off its flower
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Grace grows best in winter.
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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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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 think it is possible on earth to build a young, new Jerusalem, a little, new heaven of this surpassing love. God, either send me more of this love, or take me quickly over the water, where I may be filled with his love.
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