A57970:1275
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
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.
I Have heard of the mind & malice of your adversaries against you: It's like they will extend the law they have, in length & breadth answerable to their heat of mind; but it is a great part of your glory that the cause is not yours, but your Lord's whom ye serve, & I doubt not but Christ will count it his honour to back his weak servant, & it were a shame for him (with reverence to his holy Name) that he should suffer himself to be in the common of such a poor man as ye are, & that ye should give out for him & not get in again: Write up your disbursements for your Master Christ, & keep the count what ye give out, whether name, credit, goods, or life, & suspend your reckoning till nigh the evening, & remember that a poor weak servant of Christ wrote it to you, ye shall have Christ, a King, caution for your incomes & all your losses: Reckon not from the fore-noon: Take the word of God for your warrant, and for Christ's act of cautionry; howbeit body, life & goods go for Christ your Lord, & though ye should lose the head for him; yet Luk 21. 18. There shall not one hair of your head perish. ver. 19. in patience therefore possess your soul: & because ye are the first man in Galloway called out & questioned for the name of Jesus, his eye hath been upon you as upon one whom he hath designed to be among his witnesses: Christ hath said, Alexander Gordon shall lead the ring in witnessing a good confession; & therefore he hath put the garland of suffering for himself first upon your head: ⟨p. 475⟩think your self so much the more obliged to him, & fear not; for he layeth his right hand on your head: He who was dead & is alive will plead your cause, & will look attentively upon the process from the beginning to the end, & the Spirit of glory shall rest upon you. Rev. 2: 10. Fear none of these things which thou shalt suffer, behold the Devil shall cast some •f you into prison that ye may be tried, & ye shall have tribulation ten days: Be thou faithful unto the death, & I will give thee the crown of life: That lovely one esus, who also became the Son of man that he might take strokes for you, write the cross-sweetening & soul-supporting sense of these words in your heart: These rumbling wheels •f Scotland's ten days tribulation are under his look who hath seven eyes: Take a house on your head, & slip your self by faith in under Christ's wings, till the storm be over: