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The bloom fell off my branches and joy did cast off its flower. (Samuel Rutherford)
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. View quote
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I hang by a thread, but it is (if I may so speak) of Christ's spinning. View quote
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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. View quote
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It is no small comfort that God hath written some Scriptures to you which He hath not to others. Read these, and think God is like a friend who sendeth a letter to a whole house and family, but who speaketh in His letter to some by name that are dearest to Him in the house. View quote
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The good Husbandman may pluck His rose & gather in His lily. View quote
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Take Christ in with you under your yoke, and let patience have her perfect work. View quote
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Dearest wife, let us go on and faint not; something of ours is in heaven besides the flesh of our exalted Saviour, and we go on after our own. View quote
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Welcome, welcome, cross of Christ, if Christ be with it. View quote
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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. View quote
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My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence. (Samuel Rutherford)
I have been benefited by praying for others; for by making an errand to God for them I have gotten something for myself. View quote
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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. View quote
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Show yourself a Christian by suffering without murmuring. In patience possess your soul - they lose nothing who gain Christ. View quote
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Grace tried is better than grace, and more than grace; it is glory in its infancy. View quote
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Consider, it is impossible that your idol sins and you can go to heaven together; and that those who will not part with these do not indeed love Christ at the bottom, but only in word and show, which will not do the business. View quote
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I perceive we postpone all our joys of Christ, till He and we be in our own house above, thinking that there is nothing of it here to be sought or found, but only hope and fair promises; and that Christ will give us nothing here but tears, sadness, crosses; and that we shall never feel the smell of the flowers of that high garden of paradise above, till we come there. Nay, but I find it possible to find young glory, and a young green paradise of joy even here. We dream of hunger in Christ's house, while we are here, although He alloweth feasts to all the bairns within God's household. View quote
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Build your nest upon no tree here, for ye see that God hath sold the forest to death. View quote
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Christ, in that place He hath put you, hath intrusted you with a dear pledge, which is His own glory, and hath armed you with His sword to keep the pledge, and make a good account of it to God. View quote
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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. View quote
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ye and I might meet with joy up in the rainbow. (Samuel Rutherford)
When ye are come to the other side of the water, and have set down your foot on the shore ot glorious eternity, and look back again to the waters and to your wearisome journey, and shall see in that clear glass of endless glory, nearer to the bottom of God's wisdom, ye shall then be forced to say, " If God had done otherwise with me than He hath done, I had never come to the enjoyment of this crown of glory." View quote
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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 furnisheth a fair field for faith to put forth itself. View quote
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Jesus Christ came into my prison cell last night, and every stone flashed like a ruby. View quote
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You will not be carried to Heaven lying at ease upon a feather bed. View quote
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