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• Show yourself a Christian by suffering without murmuring. In patience possess your soul - they lose nothing who gain Christ.

  Samuel Rutherford

  Christian, Patience, Soul

  Samuel Rutherford (1867). “Letters of the Rev. Samuel Rutherford”, p.360

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• After winter comes the summer. After night comes the dawn. And after every storm, there comes clear, open skies.

  Samuel Rutherford

  Summer, Spiritual, Winter

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• Since He looked upon me my heart is not my own. He hath runaway to heaven with it.

  Samuel Rutherford

  Christian, Jesus, Heart

  Samuel Rutherford, Hamilton Smith (2008). “Extracts from the Letters of Samuel Rutherford”, p.83, Scripture Truth

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• Every day we may see some new thing in Christ. His love hath neither brim nor bottom.

  Samuel Rutherford

  May, His Love, Christ

  Samuel Rutherford (1765). “Joshua redivivus, or Mr Rutherford's letters”, p.273

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• Grace grows best in winter.

  Samuel Rutherford

  Winter, Grace, Grows

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• Make not Christ a liar in distrusting His promise.

  Samuel Rutherford

  Jesus, Liars, Promise

  Samuel Rutherford (1867). “Letters of the Rev. Samuel Rutherford”, p.342

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• My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence.

  Samuel Rutherford

  Faith, Sleep, Omnipotence

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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.

  Samuel Rutherford

  Thinking, Life Is Hard, Hard Life

  Samuel Rutherford (1824). “Joshua redivivus: or, three hundred and fifty two religious letters ... To which is added, the Author's testimony to the covenanted work of reformation, between 1638 and 1649 ... As also, a large preface and postscript ... by the Rev. Mr. McWard. The tenth edition”, p.276

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• Christ has no velvet crosses.

  Samuel Rutherford

  Velvet, Christ, Crosses

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• We are as near to heaven as we are far from self, and far from the love of a sinful world.

  Samuel Rutherford

  Self, Heaven, World

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• Set not your heart upon the world, since God hath not made it your portion.

  Samuel Rutherford

  Heart, World, Made

  Samuel Rutherford (1765). “Joshua redivivus, or Mr Rutherford's letters”, p.225

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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.

  Samuel Rutherford

  Giving, Desire, His Love

  Samuel Rutherford (1867). “Letters of the Rev. Samuel Rutherford”, p.116

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• My Lord Jesus has fully recompensed my sadness with his joys, my losses with his own presence. I find it a sweet and rich thing to exchange my sorrows with Christ's joys, my afflictions with that sweet peace I have with himself.

  Samuel Rutherford

  Sweet, Jesus, Sadness

  Samuel Rutherford (1824). “Joshua redivivus: or, three hundred and fifty two religious letters ... To which is added, the Author's testimony to the covenanted work of reformation, between 1638 and 1649 ... As also, a large preface and postscript ... by the Rev. Mr. McWard. The tenth edition”, p.40

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• I wonder many times that ever a child of God should have a sad heart, considering what their Lord is preparing for them.

  Samuel Rutherford

  Children, Heart, Should Have

  "Letters of Samuel Rutherford: With a Sketch of His Life".

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• Christ chargeth me to believe His daylight at midnight.

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  Believe, Midnight, Daylight

  Samuel Rutherford (1848). “Letters of ... Samuel Rutherford, whith biogr. notices of his correspondents, by J. Anderson, and a sketch of his life, &c., by A.A. Bonar”, p.543

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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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  Idols, Evil, Indulge

  Samuel Rutherford (1845). “Religious Letters”, p.80

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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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  Heaven, Done, Steps

  Samuel Rutherford (1863). “Letters of Samuel Rutherford: With a Sketch of His Life”, p.86

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• Ye have lost a child--nay, she is not lost to you, who is found to Christ; 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.

  Samuel Rutherford

  Stars, Children, Sight

  Samuel Rutherford (1824). “Joshua redivivus: or, three hundred and fifty two religious letters ... To which is added, the Author's testimony to the covenanted work of reformation, between 1638 and 1649 ... As also, a large preface and postscript ... by the Rev. Mr. McWard. The tenth edition”, p.270

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• If Christ Jesus be the periode, the end and the lodging-home at the end of your journey, there is no fear ye go to a friend . . . ye may look death in the face with joy.

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  Jesus, Home, Journey

  Samuel Rutherford (1848). “Letters of ... Samuel Rutherford, whith biogr. notices of his correspondents, by J. Anderson, and a sketch of his life, &c., by A.A. Bonar”, p.648

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• Jesus Christ came into my prison cell last night, and every stone flashed like a ruby.

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  Jesus, Night, Cells

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• Howbeit your faith seeth but the black side of providence, yet it hath a better side, and God shall let you see it. ... “For we know that all things work together for good to them that love God,” ergo, shipwreck, losses, &c., work together for the good of them that love God: hence I infer, that losses, disappointments, ill tongues, loss of friends, houses, or country, are God's workmen, set on work to work out good to you, out of everything that befalleth you.

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  Country, Disappointment, Loss

  "Letters of the Rev. Samuel Rutherford".

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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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  Heaven, Miracle, Looks

  Samuel Rutherford (1863). “Letters of Samuel Rutherford: With a Sketch of His Life”, p.252

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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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  Faithful, Suffering, Events

  Samuel Rutherford (1867). “Letters of the Rev. Samuel Rutherford”, p.74

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• Keep God's covenant in your trials; hold you by His blessed word, and sin not; flee anger, wrath, grudging, envying, fretting; forgive a hundred pence to your fellow-servant, because your Lord hath forgiven you ten thousand talents: for, I assure you by the Lord, your adversaries shall get no advantage against you, except you sin, and offend your Lord, in your sufferings.

  Samuel Rutherford

  Blessed, Sins Not, Wrath

  Samuel Rutherford (1824). “Joshua redivivus: or, three hundred and fifty two religious letters ... To which is added, the Author's testimony to the covenanted work of reformation, between 1638 and 1649 ... As also, a large preface and postscript ... by the Rev. Mr. McWard. The tenth edition”, p.363

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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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  Forgiveness, Morning, Prayer

  Samuel Rutherford, Hamilton Smith (2008). “Extracts from the Letters of Samuel Rutherford”, p.45, Scripture Truth

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