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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 1 › Letter 75: To the right honourable, my Lord LOWDOUN. (75.)
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.
Right honourable.
Grace mercy & peace be to your Lo: I rejoice exceedingly that I hear your Lo: hath a good mind to Christ & his now-born-down truth. My very dear Lord, go on in the strength of the Lord to carry your honour & worldly glory to the new Jerusalem: For this cause your Lo: received these of the Lord: this is a sure way for the establishment of your house if ye be of these who are willing in your place to build Zion's old waste places in Scotland. Your Lo: wanteth not God's & man's law both, now to come to the streets for Christ: & suppose the bastard laws of man were against you, it is an honest & zealous error, if here ye slip against a point or punctilio of standing policy: when your foot slippeth in such known ground as is the royal prerogative of our high & most truly dread sovereign [who hath many crowns on his head] & the liberties of his house, he will hold you up. Blessed shall they be who take Babel's little ones ⟨p. 158⟩& dash their heads against stones: I wish your Lo: have a share of that blessing with other worthy Nobles in our land. It is true, it is now accounted wisdom for men to be partners in pulling up the stakes & long the cords of the tent of Christ: but I am persuaded, that that wisdom is cried down in heaven, & shall never pass for true wisdom it• the Lord, whose word crieth shame upon wit against Christ & truth: & accordingly it shall prove shame & confusion of face in the end. Our Lord hath given your Lo: […] of a better stamp, & learning also wherein year not behind the disputer and the s••be. O what a blessed thing i• it to see Nobility, Learning & Sanctification, all co cur in one! For these ye owe your sell to Christ & his kingdom: God hath be-wildered & b•-misted the wit & the learning of the scribes & disputer of this time; they look asquint to the Bible: This blinding & be-•ing world blindfoldeth mens light, that they are afraid to see straight out before them, nay their very light playeth the knave, or wos, to truth. Your Lo: knoweth, within a little while, Policy against truth will blush, & the works of men shall burn, even their spider-wb, who spin out many hundred ells & webs of indifferency in the Lord's worship, moe then ever oses, who would have anoof mt rial; & Daniel, who would have a look out at a widow a matter of life & death, then ever [I say] these men of God dreamed of.