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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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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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Millions of hells of sinners cannot come near to exhaust infinite grace.
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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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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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Let us be faithful and care for our own part, which is to do and suffer for Him, and lay Christ's part on Himself, and leave it there; duties are ours, events are the Lord's.
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Verily, we know not what an evil it is to indulge ourselves, and to make an idol of our will.
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You shall by faith sustain yourself and comfort yourself in your Lord, and be strong in His power; for you are in the beaten and common way to heaven, when you are under our Lord's crosses. You have reason to rejoice in it, more than in a crown of gold; and rejoice and be glad to bear the reproaches of Christ.
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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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There is as much in our Lord's pantry as will satisfy all his children and as much wine in his cellar as will quench all their thirst. Hunger on, for there is meat in hungering for Christ; go never from him, but seek him who is yet pleased with the importunity of hungry souls until he fills you; if he delays, yet do not go away, even if you faint at his feet.
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Through many afflictions we must enter into the kingdom of God... It is folly to think to steal to heaven with a whole skin.
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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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Faith's speculations to the worst and hardest, in point of resolution, are sweet.
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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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Christ and His cross are not separable in this life, howbeit Christ and His cross part at heaven's door, for there is no house-room for crosses in heaven. One tear, one sigh, one sad heart, one fear, one loss, one thought of trouble cannot find lodging there.
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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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Set not your heart upon the world, since God hath not made it your portion.
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It is impossible to be submissive and religiously patient, if ye stay your thoughts down among the confused rollings and wheels of second causes, as, O, the place! O, the time! O, if this had been, this had not followed! O, the linking of this accident with this time and place! Look up to the master motion and the first wheel.
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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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Christ's enemies are but breaking their own heads in pieces, upon the Rock laid in Zion; and the stone is not removed out of its place. Faith hath cause to take courage from our very afflictions; the devil is but a whetstone to sharpen the faith and patience of the saints. I know that he but heweth and polisheth stones, all this time, for the new Jerusalem.
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In our fluctuations of feeling, it is well to remember that Jesus admits no change in His affections; your heart is not the compass Jesus saileth by.
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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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If you should see a man shut up in a closed room, idoizing a set of lamps and rejoicing in their light, and you wished to make him truly happy, you would begin by blowing out all his lamps; and then throw open the shutters to let in the light of heaven.
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Many are friends to the success of reformation, not to reformation.
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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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I pray God that I may never find my will again. Oh, that Christ would subject my will to His, and trample it under His feet.
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Like a fool as I was, I suffered my sun to be high in the heavens and near afternoon before I ever took the gate by the end.
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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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Build your nest upon no tree here, for ye see that God hath sold the forest to death.
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Character in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested.
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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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