A57970:891
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.
To EARLESTOWN ELDER. Rev. 12: 11. And they overcame the Dragon by the blood of the Lamb & the word of their testimony, & they loved not their lives unto the death. (165)
To EARLESTOVVN ELDER. Rev. 12: 11. And they overcame the Dragon by the blood of the Lamb & the word of their testimony, & they loved not their lives unto the death. (165)
Much honoured Sir.
Grace, mercy & peace be to you: I long to see you in paper & to be refreshed by you. I cannot but desire you & charge you to help me to praise him, who feedeth a poor prisoner with the fatness of his house. O how weighty is his love! O but there is much telling in Christ's kindness! The Amen, the faithful & true witness hath payed me my hundred fold well told & one to the hundred: I complained of him, but he is owing me nothing now. Sir, I charge you to help me to praise his goodness, & to proclaim to others my Bridegroom's kindness, whose love is better then wine. I took up an action against Christ & bought a plea against his love, & libelled unkindness against Christ my Lord, & I said, this is my death, he hath forgotten me: But my meek Lord held his peace & beheld me, & would not contend for the last word of flitting, & now hath chided himself friends with me: And now I see, he must be God & I must be flesh: I pass from my summons, I acknowledge he might have given me my fill of it & never troubled himself: But now he hath taken away the mask, I have been comforted, he could not smother his love any longer to a prisoner & a stranger: God grant that I may never buy a plea against Christ again, but may keep good quarters with him. I want no kindness, no love-token; but Oh, wise is his love! for notwithstanding of this hot summer-blink, I am kept low with the grief of my silence, for his word is in me as a fire in my bowels, and I see the Lord's vineyard laid waste, & the heathen entered into the sanctuary, and my belly is pained and my soul in heaviness, because the Lord's people is gone into captivity & because of the fury of the Lord & that