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We take nothing to the grave with us, but a good or evil conscience... It is true, terrors of conscience cast us down; and yet without terrors of conscience we cannot be raised up again.
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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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Millions of hells of sinners cannot come near to exhaust infinite grace.
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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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To believe Christ's cross to be a friend, as he himself is a friend, is also a special act of faith
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No pen, no words, no image can express to you the loveliness of my only, only Lord Jesus.
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But the way to overcome is by patience, forgiving and praying for your enemies, in doing whereof you heap coals upon their heads, and your Lord shall open a door to you in your trouble: wait upon Him, as the night watch waiteth for the morning. He will not tarry. Go up to your watch-tower, and come not down, but by prayer, and faith, and hope, wait on.
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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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It is certain that this is not only good which the Almighty has done, but that it is best; He hath reckoned all your steps to heaven.
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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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He who duly esteemeth Christ, is a noble bidder, and so a noble and liberal buyer.
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When we shall come home, and enter into the possession of our Brother's fair kingdom, and when our heads shall find the weight of the eternal crown of glory, then we shall look back to pains and sufferings and then we will see life and sorrow to be less than one step or stride from a prison to glory. Our little inch of time-suffering is not worthy of our first night's welcome-home to heaven.
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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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Set no time to the Lord the creator of time, for His time is always best.
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My desire is that my Lord would give me broader and deeper thoughts, to feed myself with wondering at His love.
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Let your children be as so many flowers, borrowed from God. If the flowers die or wither, thank God for a summer loan of them.
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Build your nest upon no tree here, for ye see that God hath sold the forest to death.
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Many are friends to the success of reformation, not to reformation.
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I find my Lord Jesus cometh not in the precise way that I lay wait for Him. He hath a manner of His own. Oh, how high are His ways above my ways
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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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Grace will ever speak for itself and be fruitful in well-doing; the sanctified cross is a fruitful tree.
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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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I desire now to make no more pleas with Christ; verily, he hath not put me to a loss by what I suffer; he oweth me nothing; for in my bonds, how sweet and comfortable have the thoughts of him been to me, wherein I find a sufficient recompense of reward!.
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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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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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Samuel Rutherford
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Died:
March 29, 1661
Bio:
Samuel Rutherford was a Scottish Presbyterian pastor, theologian and author, and one of the Scottish Commissioners to the Westminster Assembly.
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Letters of Samuel Rutherford
Lex, Rex
The Loveliness of Christ
The trial and triumph of faith (1645)
Quaint sermons of Samuel Rutherford
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