A57970:1305
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.
The Saviour is on his journey with salvation and deliverance for mount Zion & the sword of the Lord is drunk with blood and made fat with fatness, his sword is bathed in heaven against Babylon, for it is the day of the Lord's vengeance and the year of recompenses for the controversy of Zion: And persuade your selves, the streams of the rivers of Babylon shall be pitch, and the dust of the land brimstone and burning pitch, Isa. 34: 8. And if your deliverance be conjoined with the deliverance of Zion, it shall be two salvations to you. It were good to be armed before hand for death or bodily tortures for Christ, and to think what a crown of honour it is, that God hath given you pieces of living clay to be tortured witnesses for saving truth, and that ye are so happy as to have some pints of blood to give out for the crown of that royal Lord, who hath caused you to avouch himself before men. If ye can lend fines of three thousand pound sterling for Christ, let heaven's register and Christ's count-book keep in reckoning your disbursements for him: It shall be engraven & printed in great letters upon heaven's throne, what you are willing to give for him: Christ's papers of that kind cannot be lost or fall by. Do not wonder to see clay boast the great potter, & to see blinced men to threaten the Gospel with death & burial & to raze out Truth's name: but where will they make a grace for the Gospel & the Lord's bride! Earth & hell shall be but little bounds for their burial: lay all the clay & rubbish of this inch of the whole earth above our Lord's spouse, ⟨p. 492⟩yet it will not cover her nor hold her down; she shall live & not die, she shall behold the salvation of God. Let your faith first God a little & be not afraid for a smoking fire-brand: there is more smoke in Babylon's furnace then there is fire: till doomsday shall come, they shall never see the Kirk of Scotland & our Covenant burnt to ashes, or if it should be thrown in tho fire, yet it cannot be so burnt or buried, as not to have a resurrection: angry clay's wind shall shake none of Christ's corn; he will gather in all his wheat into his barn: only let your fellowship with Christ be renewed: ye are sibber to Christ now when you are imprisoned for him, then before; for now the strokes laid on you, do come in remembrance before our Lord, & he can own his own wounds:
The Saviour is on his journey with salvation and deliverance for mount Zion & the sword of the Lord is drunk with blood and made fat with fatness, his sword is bathed in heaven against Babylon, for it is the day of the Lord's vengeance and the year of recompences for the comtroversie of Zion: And perswade your selves, the streams of the rivers of Babylon shall be pitch, and the dust of the land brimstone and burning pitch,