Joshua Redivivus, or Mr. Rutherford's Letters

for when we remember the many eminent lights (the removal of whom, hath ⟨image 22⟩brought a sad & dark night upon the Church) which did laxly shine amongst us, & most say, they are gone who were our faithful guides, it would almost seem pardonable, to abandon our selves to sorrow, & refuse to be comforted: Quis •alia fando tempere• a lachrimis? Yet give me leave to suggest these things (1) Let not the tear so blind thine eye, as not to observe the goodness of God, who gave us such: It was a saying of an eminent & exercised Christian (worthy to be remembered in this present case & to be put upon record for posterity) perceiving many sorrowful, upon the removal, of one of the most burning & shining lights, that Britain had to boast of (that great Interpreter Mr Durham I mean) turn your tears & sighs for this loss (said that worthy person) though it seem to you almost irreparable [an age hardly producing such an other] into songs of praises, & do not so indulge your sorrow, because the Master hath called home an Ambassador, who did so faithfully & successfully negotiate for him; as ye forget in the mean time to praise the Lord of the harvest, who thrust forth such a labourer into his vineyard: Let not the greatness of your grief, make you forget the riches of his goodness to the Church of Christ in Scotland, in that there was a Mr Durham to die out of it: So I say, when in reading of these, thou remembers that the worthy Author is gone to his rest; yet be not guilty of so much ingratitude, through the excess of thy grief, as to forget God's care of, & kindness to the Church of Scotland, who amongst others gave her a Mr Rutherford: one who was not only famous at home & abroad for his great Learning;

for when we remember the many eminent lights (the removal of whom, hath ⟨image 22⟩brought a sad & darke night upon the Church) which did la•ly shine amongst us, & most say, they are gone who were our faithfull guids, it would almost seem pardonable, to abandon our selves to sorrow, & refuse to be comforted: Quis •alia fando tempere• a lachrimis? Yet give me leave to suggest these things (1) Let not the tear so blinde thine eye, as not to observe the goodness of God, who gave us such: It was a saying of an eminent & excercised Christian (worthy to be remembred in this present case & to be put upon record for posterity) perceiving many sorrowfull, upon the removal, of one of the most burning & shining lights, that Britain had to boast of (that great Interpreter Mr Durhame I mean) turne your tears & sighes for this loss (said that worthy person) though it seem to you almost irreeparable [an age hardly producing such an other] into songs of praises, & doe not so indulge your sorrow, because the Master hath called home an Ambassadour, who did so faithfully & successfully negotiat for him; as ye forget in the mean time to praise the Lord of the harvest, who thrust forth such a labourer into his vinyard: Let not the greatness of your grief, make you forget the riches of his goodness to the Church of Christ in Scotland, in that there was a Mr Durhame to die out of it: So I say, when in reading of these, thou remembers that the worthy Author is gone to his rest; yet be not guilty of so much ingratitude, through the excess of thy grief, as to froget God's care of, & kindness to the Church of Scotland, who amongst others gave her a Mr Rutherfoord: one who was not onely famous at home & abroad for his great Learning;