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• Take Christ in with you under your yoke, and let patience have her perfect work.

  Samuel Rutherford

  Perfect, Yoke, Christ

  Samuel Rutherford (1765). “Joshua redivivus, or Mr Rutherford's letters”, p.379

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• Let your children be as so many flowers, borrowed from God. If the flowers die or wither, thank God for a summer loan of them.

  Samuel Rutherford

  Summer, Children, Flower

  Samuel Rutherford (1765). “Joshua redivivus, or Mr Rutherford's letters”, p.56

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• O, what I owe to the file, the hammer, and the furnace of the Lord Jesus! I know that he is no idle husbandman - he purposes a crop.

  Samuel Rutherford

  Jesus, Suffering, Purpose

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• Heaven is a house full of miracles; yea, of spectacles and images of free grace.

  Samuel Rutherford

  House, Miracle, Heaven

  Samuel Rutherford (1845). “The Trial and Triumph of Faith”, p.45

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• It is comfort to the believer that all things are possible.

  Samuel Rutherford

  Comfort, Believer, All Things

  Samuel Rutherford (1845). “The Trial and Triumph of Faith”, p.374

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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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  Flower, Humility, Exercise

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p.277, 1895.

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• My dear friend, venture to take the wind on your face for Christ.

  Samuel Rutherford

  Courage, Wind, Venture

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 165), 1895.

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• When the race is ended, and the play is either won or lost, and ye are in the utmost circle and border of time, and shall put your foot within the march of eternity, all the good things of your short nightdream shall seem to you like ashes of a blaze of thorns or straw.

  Samuel Rutherford

  Christian, Blessing, Race

  Samuel Rutherford (1761). “Letters, Now Divided Into Three Parts: The First Containing Those which Were Written from Aberdeen”, p.308

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• I bless the Lord that all our troubles come through Christ's fingers, and that He casteth sugar among them and casteth in some ounce withts of heaven and of the spirit of glory in our cup.

  Samuel Rutherford

  Heaven, Sugar, Cups

  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.106

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

  Samuel Rutherford

  Flower, Joy, Branches

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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!.

  Samuel Rutherford

  Sweet, Loss, Suffering

  Samuel Rutherford (1857). “Letters”, p.148

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• Live on Christ's love while ye are here, and all the way.

  Samuel Rutherford

  Love, True Love, Way

  Samuel Rutherford (1867). “Letters of the Rev. Samuel Rutherford”, p.439

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

  Samuel Rutherford

  Rose, Lilies, May

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• Christ seeketh your help in your place; give Him your hand.

  Samuel Rutherford

  Hands, Giving, Helping

  Samuel Rutherford (1765). “Joshua redivivus, or Mr Rutherford's letters”, p.75

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• He who duly esteemeth Christ, is a noble bidder, and so a noble and liberal buyer.

  Samuel Rutherford

  Noble, Christ, Buyers

  Samuel Rutherford (1845). “The Trial and Triumph of Faith”, p.265

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