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From Letters of Samuel Rutherford, by Samuel Rutherford

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Quote · Strength & Perseverance

I believe that the Lord tacketh His ship often to fetch the wind, and that He purposeth to bring mercy out of your sufferings and silence, which is grievous to you. Seeing that He knoweth our willing mind to serve Him, our wages and stipend is running to the fore with our God, even as some sick soldiers get pay, when they are bedfast and not able to go to the field with others. Suffering is the other half of our ministry, howbeit the hardest; for we would be content that our King Jesus should make an open proclamation, and cry down crosses, and cry up joy, gladness, ease, honor, and peace.

Quote · Hope & Comfort

He has sealed my sufferings with His own comforts, and I know that He will not put His seal upon blank paper.

Quote · Hope & Comfort

It is a free prison; citizens pay nothing for the grave.

Quote · Hope & Comfort

Time’s thread is shorter by one inch than it was.

Quote · Hope & Comfort

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.

Quote · Hope & Comfort

My losses are my gain, my prison a palace, and my sadness joyfulness.

Quote · Guidance & Wisdom

Nothing, nothing, I say, nothing, but sound sanctification can abide the Lord’s fan.

Quote · Grace & Salvation

Your wants and falls proclaim that ye have nothing of your own but what ye borrow; nay, yourself is not your own, but Christ has given Himself to you.

Quote · Hope & Comfort

God has dried up one channel of your love by the removal of your husband.

Quote · Strength & Perseverance

We owe the devil no such service.

Quote · Faith & Trust

I should desire to have my Lord well spoken of, and honored, howbeit He should make nothing of me but a bridge over a water.

Quote · Hope & Comfort

The loss of life is gain to you. If Christ Jesus be the period, the end, and lodging home, at the end of your journey, there is no fear; ye go to a friend.

Quote · Strength & Perseverance

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.

Quote · Hope & Comfort

What misery, to have both a bad way all the day, and no hope of lodging at night!

Quote · Hope & Comfort

Death in itself includeth both the death of the soul and the death of the body; but to God’s children the bounds and the limits of death are abridged and drawn into a more narrow compass.

Quote · Faith & Trust

When my faith was asleep, Christ was awake; and now, when I am awake, I say He did all things well.

Quote · Faith & Trust

Love Him dearly. Win in to see Him; there is in Him that which you never saw. He is aye nigh; He is a tree of life, green and blossoming, both summer and winter. There is a nick in Christianity, to the which whosoever cometh, they see and feel more than others can do.

Quote · Gratitude & Joy

I have neither tongue nor pen to express to you the happiness of such as are in Christ.

Quote · Strength & Perseverance

I thought it had been an easy thing to be a Christian, and that to seek God had been at the next door; but O, the windings and turnings that He has led me through!

Quote · Guidance & Wisdom

To be approved of God in the heart and in sincerity is not an ordinary mercy.

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