A57970:1361
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 39: To Mr MATTHEW MOWAT. (39)Part 2 › Letter 39: To Mr MATHEW MOWAT. (39)
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 Mr MATTHEW MOWAT. (39)
To Mr MATHEW MOWAT. (39)
Reverend & dear Brother.
What am I to answer you? Alas! my books are all bare & show me little of God: I would fain go beyond books in to his house of love, to see himself. Dear Brother, neither ye nor I, are parties worthy of his love or knowledge. Ah! how hath sin bemisted & blinded us that we cannot see him? But for my poor self, I am pained & like to burst, because he will not take down the wall, & fetch hi• uncreated beauty, & bring his matchless, white & ruddy face out of heaven one's errand, that I may have heaven meeting me ere I go to it, in such a wonderful sight: ye know that Majesty & Love do humble, because homely love to sinners dwelleth in him with Majesty: Ye should give him all his own court-stiles, his high & heaven-names. What am I to shape conceptions of my highest Lord? How broad & how high & how deep he is above & beyond what these conceptions are, I cannot tell: but for my own weak practice [which alas! can be no rule to one so deep in love-sickness with Christ as ye are] I would fain add to my thoughts & esteem of him, & make him more high, & would wish an heart & love ten thousand times wider then the outmost circle & curtain that goeth about the heaven of heavens, to entertain him in that heart & with that love. But that which is your pain, my dear Brother, is mine also, I am confounded with the thoughts of him: I know God is cast [if I may speak so] in a sweet mould & lovely image, in the person of that heaven's jewel, the man Christ, &