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Ye would not go to heaven but with company, and ye may perceive that the way of those who went before you was through blood, suffering, and many afflictions; nay, Christ, the Captain, went in over the door-threshold of paradise, bleeding to death . . . Christ hath borne the whole complete cross, and his saints bear but bits and chips; as the apostle saith, 'the remnants of leavings of the cross.

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

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