“There is nothing left to us but to see how we may be approved of Him, and how we may roll the weight of our weak souls in well-doing upon Him, who is God omnipotent.”

— Samuel Rutherford

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 274.

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Scottish Reformed theologian 1600–1661

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“There is nothing left to us but to see how we may be approved of Him, and how we may roll the weight of our weak souls in well-doing upon Him, who is God omnipotent.”

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