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
heaven steps done
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.
perfect yoke christ
Take Christ in with you under your yoke, and let patience have her perfect work.
sick house miracle
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.
kindness pride self
It is the Lord's kindness that he will take the scum off us in the fire. Who know how needful winnowing is to us and what dross we have before we enter the kingdom of God? So narrow is the entry to heaven that our knots, lumps of pride, self-love, idol-love, and world-love must be hammered off us, that we may stoop low and creep through into that narrow entry.
pain sweat each-day
I urge you a nearer communion with Christ, and a growing communion. There are curtains to be opened in Christ that we have never seen before... Therefore dig deep, and sweat, and labor. Take pains for Him, and set aside as much time as you can in each day for Him.
devil saint faith-and-patience
The devil is but a whetstone to sharpen the faith and patience of the saints.-
suffering sin lord
I assure you by the Lord, your adversaries shall get no advantage against you, except you sin, and offend your Lord, in your sufferings.
idols evil indulge
Verily, we know not what an evil it is to indulge ourselves, and to make an idol of our will.
jesus suffering hammers
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.
sweet father pride
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.
sweet jesus sadness
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.
strong christ ends
The weightiest end of the cross of Christ that is laid upon you, lieth upon your strong Savior.
men law liberty
When the supreme magistrate will not execute the judgment of the Lord, those who made him supreme magistrate, under God, who have under God, sovereighn liberty to dispose of crowns and kingdoms, are to execute the judgment of the Lord, when wicked men make the law of God of none effect.
rocks zion enemy
Christ's enemies are but breaking their own heads in pieces, upon the Rock laid in Zion; and the stone is not removed out of its place. Faith hath cause to take courage from our very afflictions; the devil is but a whetstone to sharpen the faith and patience of the saints. I know that he but heweth and polisheth stones, all this time, for the new Jerusalem.