Samuel Rutherford
Samuel Rutherford was a Scottish Presbyterian minister and theologian and one of the Scottish Commissioners to the Westminster Assembly.
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- Born in
- Nisbet
- Educated at
- University of Edinburgh
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Trending topics shown first"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."
"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"
"Dearest wife, let us go on and faint not; something of ours is in heaven besides the flesh of our exalted Saviour, and we go on after our own."
"Every day we may see some new thing in Christ. His love hath neither brim nor bottom."
"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."
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1870
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Birth1932
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