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The Loveliness of by Samuel Rutherford

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Not one ounce, not one grain-weight more is laid on me than He hath enabled me to bear . . . Faith hath cause to take courage from our very afflictions; the devil is but a whetstone to sharpen the faith and patience of the saints. I know He but heweth and polisheth stones for the new Jerusalem.

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The Loveliness of Christ: Selections from the Letters of Samuel Rutherford

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