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
comfort believer all-things
It is comfort to the believer that all things are possible.
believe special christ
To believe Christ's cross to be a friend, as he himself is a friend, is also a special act of faith
believe daylight midnight
Christ chargeth me to believe His daylight at midnight.
spiritual believe rocks
Believe God's love and power more than you believe your own feelings and experiences. Your rock is Christ, and it is not the rock that ebbs and flows but the sea.
When I am in the cellar of affliction, I look for the Lord's choicest wines.
debt far lend oh others run teach
Oh my debt of praise, how weighty is it, and how far run up! Oh that others would lend me to pay, and teach me to praise!
nature night open winter
After winter comes the summer. After night comes the dawn. After every storm, there comes clear, open slies.
glory grace tried
Grace tried is better than grace, and it is more than grace, it is glory in its infancy.
full heart lord
Come all crosses, welcome, welcome! so I may get my heart full of my Lord Jesus.
kings men judging
Every man by nature is a freeman born; by nature no man cometh out of the womb under any civil subjection to king, prince, or judge.
wind roots zion
Grow as a palm-tree on God's Mount Zion; howbeit shaken with winds, yet the root is fast.
jesus portraiture essentials
It is in some respect greater love in Jesus to sanctify than to justify, for He maketh us most like Himself, in His own essential portraiture and image in sanctifying us.
night sick soul
If ye never had a sick night and a pained soul for sin, ye have not yet lighted upon Christ.
errands made
I seldom made an errand to God for another but I got something for myself.