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.
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Millions of hells of sinners cannot come near to exhaust infinite grace.Samuel Rutherford
Alas, we but chase feathers flying in the air, and tire our own spirits, for the froth and over-gilded clay of a dying life. One sight of what my Lord hath let me see within this short time, is worth a world of worlds.
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When I am in the cellar of affliction, I look for the Lord's choicest wines.
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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
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Think it not hard if you get not your will, nor your delights in this life; God will have you to rejoice in nothing but himself.
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