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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 92: To his Reverend & Dear Brother, Mr DAVID DICKSON. (92)
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 his Reverend & Dear Brother, Mr DAVID DICKSON. (92)
Reverend & dearest. Brother.
What joy have I out of heaven's gates, but that my Lord Jesus be glorified in my bonds? Blessed be ye of the Lord who contributed any thing to my obliged & indebted praises: dear Brother help me a poor dyvour to pay the interest, for I cannot come nigh to render the principal: It is not jest nor sport which maketh me to speak & write as I do: I never before came to that nick or pitch of a communion with Christ that I have now attained unto, for my confirmation. I have been these two Sabbaths or three in private, taking instruments in the name of God, that my Lord Jesus & I have kissed each other in Aberdeen, the house of my pilgrimage: I seek not an apple to play me with he knoweth, whom I serve in the spirit but a seal; I but beg earnest, & am content to suspend & first glory while supper time: I know this world will not last with me; for my moon-light is noon-day light, & my four-hours above my feasts when I was a preacher; at which times also, I was embraced very often in his arms: But who can blame Christ to take me on behind him [if I may say so] on his white horse or in his chariot paved with love through a water: Will not a father take his little dated Davy in his arms, & carry him over a ditch or a mire? my short legs could not step over this lair or sinking mire & therefore my L: Jesus will bear me through: If a change ⟨p. 189⟩