Samuel Rutherford
Samuel Rutherford
Rev Prof Samuel Rutherfordwas a Scottish Presbyterian pastor, theologian and author, and one of the Scottish Commissioners to the Westminster Assembly...
NationalityScottish
ProfessionTheologian
sweet resolution worst
Faith's speculations to the worst and hardest, in point of resolution, are sweet.
thinking names house
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.
welcome christ crosses
Welcome, welcome, cross of Christ, if Christ be with it.
jesus waiting way
I find my Lord Jesus cometh not in the precise way that I lay wait for Him. He hath a manner of His own. Oh, how high are His ways above my ways
tree grace speak
Grace will ever speak for itself and be fruitful in well-doing; the sanctified, cross is a fruitful tree.
night sky storm
After every storm, there comes clear open skies.
thinking heaven skins
Through many afflictions we must enter into the kingdom of God ... It is folly to think to steal to heaven with a whole skin.
sweet loss suffering
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!.
may spinning speak
I hang by a thread, but it is (if I may so speak) of Christ's spinning
eye apples joy
I had but one joy, the apple of the eye of my delights , to preach Christ my Lord
rose may lilies
The good Husbandman may pluck His rose & gather in His lily.
sleep night anchors
The night will close the door & fasten my anchor within the veil and I shall go away to sleep.
giving desire his-love
My desire is that my Lord would give me broader and deeper thoughts, to feed myself with wondering at His love.
comfort believer all-things
It is comfort to the believer that all things are possible.