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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
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.
His dieting of my soul for this race maketh me lean. I have gotten the wail & choice of Christ's crosses, even the •ithe & the flower of the gold of all crosses, to bear witness to the truth, & herein find I liberty, joy, access, life, comfort, love, •aith, submission, patience, & resolution to take delight in on-waiting: & with all in my race he hath come near me & let me see the gold & crown: What then want I but fruition & real enjoyment, which is reserved to my country? Let no man think he shall lose at Christs hands in suffering for him. 4. For these present trials they are most dangerous: for people shall be stolen off their feet with well washen, & white skinned pretences of indifferency; but it is the power of the great Antichrist working in this land. Woe, woe, woe be to Apostate Scotland: there is wrath, & a cup of the red wine of the wrath of God Almighty in the Lords hand, that they •hall drink and spue and fall and not rise again. The star called Wormwood & Gall is fallen in the fountains, and rivers, & hath made them bitter: the sword of the Lord is furbished ⟨p. 78⟩against the Idol-shepherds of the l•nd; women shall bless the barren womb & miscarrying breasts; all hearts shall be faint, and all knees shall tremble, an end is coming, the leopard and the lion shall watch over our cities, houses great & fair shall be desolate without an inhabitant: the Lord hath said, Pray not for this people, for I have taken my p•ace from them; yet the Lord's third part shall come through the fire, as refined gold for the treasure of the Lord, & the out-casts of Scotland shall be gathered together again, & the wilderness shall blossom as the flower, & bud, & grow as the rose o• Sharon, & great shall be the glory of the Lord upon Scotland. 5. […] am here assaulted with the learned & pregnant wits of this Kingdom; but all honour be to my Lord, truth but laugheth at be•isted & blinded Scribes, & disputers of this world, & Gods wisdom confoundeth them, & Christ triumpheth in his own strong truth, that speaketh for it self. 6. I doubt not but my Lord is preparing me for heavier trial•: I am most ready at the good pleasure of my Lord, in the strength of his grace, for any thing he shall be pleased to call me to: neither shall the last black faced messenger, Death, be holden at the door, when it shall knock.