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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 2 › Letter 27: To the persecuted Church in Ireland. (27)
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.
It is not brick nor clay nor Babel's cursed ⟨p. 482⟩timber & stones, that is in our second temple: but our Princely King Jesus is building his house all palace-work & carved stones, it is the habitation of the Lord: We do welcome Ireland and England to our Well beloved: we invite you, O daughters of Jerusalem, to come down to our Lord's garden and seek our Well beloved with us, for his love will suffice both you & us: we do send love-letters over t•e sea, to request you to come & to marry our King & to take part of our bed: & we trust our Lord is fetching a blow upon the Beast & the scarlet-coloured Whore, to the end he may bring in his ancient widow wife, our dear Sister, the Church of the Jews. O what a heavenly heaven were it to see them come in by this mean, & suck the breasts of their little Sister, & renew their old love with their first husband, Christ, our Lord! They are booked in God's word as a Bride contracted upon Jesus: O for a sight in this, flesh of mine, of the prophesied marriage between Christ & & them! The Kings of Tarshish & the Isles, must bring presents to our Lord Jesus. Psal. 72: 10. And Britain is one of the chiefest Isles: Why then but we may believe that our Kings of this Island shall come in & bring their glory to the new Jerusalem, wherein Christ shall dwell in the latter days? It is our part to pray that the Kingdoms of the earth may become Christ's. Now I exhort you in the Lord Jesus not to be dismayed nor afraid for the two tails of these two smoking fire-bands, the fierce anger of the Deputy with his Civil Power, and of the bastard Prelates with the Power of the Beast, for they shall be cut off: They may well eat you and drink you, but they shall be forced to vomit you out again alive. If two things were firmly believed, sufferings would have no weight: If the fellowship of Christ's suffering were well known, who would not gladly take part with Jesus? For Christ & we are halvers & joint owners of one & the same cross: & therefore he that knew well what sufferings were, as he esteemed all things but loss for Christ & did judge them but dung, so did he also judge of them that he might know the fellowship of his sufferings. Philip. 3: 10. O how sweet a sight is it, to see across betwixt Christ & us, to hear our Redeemer say at every sigh & every blow, & every loss of a