The Loveliness of Christ

"There may be many Christians, most like unto young sailors, who think the shore and the whole land doth move, when the ship and they themselves are moved; just so, not a few do imagine that God moveth, and saileth, and changeth places, because their giddy souls are under sail, and subject to alteration, to ebbing and flowing; but the foundation of the Lord abideth sure."

Samuel Rutherford

         

The ScotsWorthies

"A cloud of witnesses lie here, 

Who, for Christ's interests, did appear;

For to restore true liberty,

O'erturned then by tyranny.

Theses heroes fought with great renown;

By falling got the martyr's crown!"

From the monument at Rullian Green 

                            

The Lovieness of Christ

"I am in as sweet communion with Christ as a poor sinner can be; and am only pained that He hath much beauty and fairness, and I little love; He great power and mercy, and I little faith; He much light, and I bleared eyes."

Samuel Rutherford                

The Loveliness of Christ

"I am in this house of my pilgrimage every way in good case; Christ is most kind and loving to my soul: it pleaseth Him to feast with his unseen consolations a stranger, and an exiled prisoner: and I would not exchange my Lord Jesus , with all the comfort out of heaven; His yoke is easy, and His burden light. This is His truth I now suffer for; for he hath sealed it with His blessed presence."

Samuel Rutherford

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~Life~

He may live without books,-what is knowledge but grieving?

He may live without hope,- for what is hope but deceiving?

He may live without love,-what is passion but pining?

But where is the man who can live without dining?

Author unknown