Samuel Rutherford - Letters of Samuel Rutherford

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I hang by a thread, but it is (if I may so speak) of Christ's spinning

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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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The bloom fell off my branches and joy did cast off its flower

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I had but one joy, the apple of the eye of my delights, to preach Christ my Lord

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When I look to my guiltiness, I see that my salvation is one of our Saviour's greatest miracles, either in heaven or earth.

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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 know that, as night and shadows are good for flowers, and moonlight and dews are better than a continual sun, so is Christ's absence of special use, and that it hath some nourishing virtue in it, and giveth sap to humility, and putteth an edge on hunger, and funisheth a fairfield to faith to put forth itself, and to exercise its fingers in gripping it seeth not what.

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The good Husbandman may pluck His rose & gather in His lily.

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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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It is the Lord's kindness that he will take the scum off us in the fire. Who know how needful winnowing is to us and what dross we have before we enter the kingdom of God? So narrow is the entry to heaven that our knots, lumps of pride, self-love, idol-love, and world-love must be hammered off us, that we may stoop low and creep through into that narrow entry.

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