| Excerpts from Samuel Rutherford's "The Loveliness of Christ" |
| "Oh wretched idol. myself! when shall I see thee wholly decourted, and Christ wholly put in they room? O, if Christ, Christ had the full place and the room of myself, that all my aims, puposes, thoughts, and desires, would coast and land upon Christ, and not upon myself! And yet, howbeit we cannot attain to this denial of me and mine that we can say i am not myself, myself is not myself, mine own is not longer my own; yet our aiming at this in all we do shall be accepted;for, alas, i think I shall die but minting and aiming to be a Christian." p.27 *minting- trying to attain to perfection; lit. making a coin which will be rejected and returned to the meliting pot if imperfect. |
| "Our pride must have winter weather to rot it." p.29 "I see grace groweth best in winter." p.12 |
| "Not one ounce, not one grain-weight more is laid on me than He hath enabled me to bear....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 he but heweth and poisheth stones for the new Jerusalem." p.40 |
| If i were stuck in a desert Island I would have 3 books with me and that would suffice til my day of death.. The Holy Bible, Pilgrims Progress, and The Loveliness of Christ |
| Dear brother, weary not of my sweet Master's chains; we are so much the sibber to Christ that we suffer. Lodge not a hard thought of my royal King. Rejoice in His cross. Your deliverance sleepeth not. He that will come is not slack of His promise. Wait on for God's timeous salvation, ask not when or how long. I hope He shall lose nothing of you in the furnace, but dross. *sibber- more akin, in closer relationship *timeous- timely, opportune, in good time |