“It is no small comfort that God hath written some Scriptures to you which He hath not to others. Read these, and think God is like a friend who sendeth a letter to a whole house and family, but who speaketh in His letter to some by name that are dearest to Him in the house.”

— Samuel Rutherford

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 270.

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Scottish Reformed theologian 1600–1661

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