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1. "Believe God's word and power more than you believe your own feelings and experiences. Your Rock is Christ, and it is not the Rock which ebbs and flows, but your sea." ~ Samuel Rutherford

2. "Faint not; the miles to heaven are but few and short." ~ Samuel Rutherford

3. "Do not focus your thoughts among the confused wheels of secondary causes, as -'O if this had been, this had not followed!' Look up to the master motion of the first wheel. In building, we see hewn stones and timbers under hammers and axes, yet the house in this beauty we do not see at the present, but it is in the mind of this builder. We also see unbroken clods, furrows, and stones, but we do not see the summer lilies, roses, and the beauty of a garden. Even so we do not presently see the outcome of God's decrees with his blessed purpose. It is hard to believe when his purpose is hidden and under the ground. Providence has a thousand keys to deliver his own even when all hope is gone. 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." ~ Samuel Rutherford

4. "Beware of license to the flesh, under the coat of liberty of the Spirit; and let none thinke that law-curses, looseth us from all law-obedience; or that Christ hath cryed down the tenne commandments; and that Gospel-liberty is a dispensation for law-loosenesse; or that free grace is a lawless Pope." ~ Samuel Rutherford

5. "[T]he Papist and the Arminian on the one extremity, enthroneth Nature, and extolleth proud merit, and abaseth Christ and free grace. The Familist, libertine, and Antinomian, on a contrary extremity and opposition, turn man into a block, and make him into a mere patient in the way to heaven." ~ Samuel Rutherford

6. "You must learn to make your evils your great good; and to spin comforts, peace, joy, communion with Christ, out of your troubles, which are Christ's wooers, sent to speak for you from Himself." ~ Samuel Rutherford

7. "[T]hose who can take that crabbed tree handsomely upon their back, and fasten it on cannily, shall find it such a burden as wings unto a bird, or sails to a ship." ~ Samuel Rutherford

8. "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

9. "When I am in the cellar of affliction, I look for the Lord's choicest wines." ~ Samuel Rutherford

10. "Millions of hells of sinners cannot come near to exhaust infinite grace." ~ Samuel Rutherford

11. "My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence." ~ Samuel Rutherford

12. "See that you buy the field where the Pearl is; sell all, and make a purchase of salvation. Think it not easy: for it is a steep ascent to eternal glory: many are lying dead by the way, slain with security." ~ Samuel Rutherford

13. "I have been benefited by praying for others; for by making an errand to God for them I have gotten something for myself." ~ Samuel Rutherford

14. "Verily, we know not what an evil it is to indulge ourselves, and to make an idol of our will." ~ Samuel Rutherford

15. "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." ~ Samuel Rutherford

16. "Grace tried is better than grace, and more than grace; it is glory in its infancy." ~ Samuel Rutherford

17. "Jesus Christ came into my prison cell last night, and every stone flashed like a ruby." ~ Samuel Rutherford

18. "To believe Christ's cross to be a friend, as he himself is a friend, is also a special act of faith." ~ Samuel Rutherford

19. "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." ~ Samuel Rutherford

20. "[M]ake much of the written word, and pray to God to copy his Bible in your conscience, and write a new book of his doctrine in your hearts." ~ Samuel Rutherford

21. "Your heart is not the compass that God steers by." ~ Samuel Rutherford

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