A57970:1033
Joshua Redivivus, or Mr. Rutherford's Letters
Joshua redivivus, or, Mr. Rutherford's letters divided into two parts, the first, containing these which were written from Aberdeen, where he was confined by a sentence of the high commission ... partly on account of his non-conformance : the second, containing some which were written from Anwoth ... / now published for the use of all the people of God ... by a well-wisher to the work & people of God.Joshua redivivus, or, Mr. Rutherfoord's letters divided into two parts, the first, containing these which were written from Aberdeen, where he was confined by a sentence of the high commission ... partly on account of his non-conformance : the second, containing some which were written from Anwoth ... / now published for the use of all the people of God ... by a wellwisher to the work & people of God.
Rotterdam? : s.n., 1664
Part 1 › Letter 194: To the Lady BUSBY. (194)Part 1 › Letter 194: To the Lady BUSBIE. (194)
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
To the Lady BUSBY. (194)
To the Lady BUSBIE. (194)
MISTRESS.
MTSTRESS.
I Know ye are thinking sometimes what Christ is doing in Zion, & that the haters of Zion may get the bottom of our cup & the burning coals of our furnace, that we have been tried in these many years by gone. O that this Nation would be awakened to cry mightily unto God, for the setting up of a ⟨p. 376⟩new tabernacle to Christ in Scotland. O if this Kingdom kne• how worthy Christ were of his room! His worth wa• eve• above man's estimation of him: And for my self I a• pained at the heart, that I cannot find my self disposed to leav• myself & go wholly in to Christ: Alas that there should b• o•e bit o• me out of him, and that we leave too much liberty and latitude for our selves, and our own ease, and credit, & pleasures; & so little room for All-love-worthy Christ! O what pains & charges it costeth Christ ere he get us, & when all is done we are not worth the having: It is a ondr that he should seek the like of us, but love overlooketh blackness and recklessness; for if it had not been so, Christ would never have made so fair & blessed a bargain with us, as the covenant of Grace is. I find that in all our sufferings, Christ is but iddig marches, that every one of us may say, Mine & Tine, and that men may know by their crosses, how weak a bottom nature is to stand under a trial; that then, which our Lord intendeth in all our sufferings, is, to bring Grae in uit ad request amongst us: I would succumb and me shot of hea en, if I had no more but my own strength to spport me, and if Christ should say to me, Eitr do or die, it were easy to determine what should become of me, the choice were easy, for I behooved to die, if Christ should pass by wit strained bowel and who then would take us up in our straits? I know we may say that Christ is kindest in his love, when we are at our weakest, and that if Christ had not been to the fore in our sad days, the waters had gone over our soul: His mercy hah a et period and appointed place, how far & no further the sa of affliction shall flow, and where the waves thereof shall be stayed; he prescribeth how much pain and sorrow both for weight and measure, we must have: Ye have then good cause to recall your love from all lovers and give it to Christ: He who is afflicted in all your afflictions, looketh not o you i your sad hours with an insensible heart or dry eyes: