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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.

Samuel Rutherford

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Samuel Rutherford
Died: 1661
Died: March 29
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