A57970:896

Joshua Redivivus, or Mr. Rutherford's Letters

Name: Joshua Redivivus, or Mr. Rutherford's Letters
Author: Samuel Rutherford

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.

Samuel Rutherford 1600?–1661Rotterdam? : s.n., 1664

[48], 576 p. · 247k words · Wing R2381 · ESTC R31792

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Part 1 › Letter 166: To Mr JOHN FERGUSHILL. [166]

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.

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To Mr JOHN FERGUSHILL. [166]

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Reverend & well-beloved in our Lord Jesus.

Reverend & welbeloved in our Lord Iesus.

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I Must still provoke you to write by my lines, whereat ye need not wonder; for the cross is full of talk, & speak it must, either good or bad: Neither can grief be silent. I have no dittay nor indictment to bring against Christ's cross, seeing he hath made a friendly agreement betwixt me & it, & we are in terms of love together: If my former miscarriages, & my now silent sabbaths seem to me to speak wrath from the Lord, I dare say, it is but Satan borrowing the use & loan of my cowardly & feeble apprehensions, which start at straws: I know faith is not so saint & foolish, as to tremble at every false alarm; Yet I gather this out of it, Blessed are they who are graced of God […] guide a cross well, & that there is some art required herein. I pray God I may not be so ill friend-stead, as that Christ my Lord should leave me to be my own Tutor & my own Physician. Shall I not think but my Lord Jesus who deserveth his own place very well, will take his own place upon him, as it becometh him, & that he will fill his own chair? For in this is his office, to comfort us, & thes that are cast down in all their tribulations. 2 Cor. 1. 4. Alas I know I am a fool to seek an hole ⟨p. 325⟩

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The book

Title as printed

Author

Samuel Rutherford 1600?–1661

Year

1664

Imprint

[Rotterdam? : s.n., [1664]

Size

[48], 576 p.

Words

247,199

Catalogue

Wing R2381 · ESTC R31792

Text

EEBO-TCP A57970

Passages

1,521

Sections

290

Title page

Joshua Redivivus, or Mr. Rutherford's Letters

To Mr JOHN FERGUSHILL. [166]

To WILLIAM GLENDINNING. (167)

To the Lady CULROSS. Rev. 7: 14. These are they which came out of great tribulation, & have washed their robes & made them white in the blood of the Lamb. [168]

To the Lady CULROSS. Rev. 7: 14. These are they vvhich came out of great tribulation, & have vvashed their robes & made them vvhite in the blood of the Lamb. [168]

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Reformers309

Puritans1,782

Westminster Assembly24

Evangelicals36

To Mr JOHN FERGUSHILL. [166]

To WILLIAM GLENDINNING. (167)

To the Lady CULROSS. Rev. 7: 14. These are they which came out of great tribulation, & have washed their robes & made them white in the blood of the Lamb. [168]

To the Lady CULROSS. Rev. 7: 14. These are they vvhich came out of great tribulation, & have vvashed their robes & made them vvhite in the blood of the Lamb. [168]

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