“When ye are come to the other side of the water, and have set down your foot on the shore ot glorious eternity, and look back again to the waters and to your wearisome journey, and shall see in that clear glass of endless glory, nearer to the bottom of God's wisdom, ye shall then be forced to say, " If God had done otherwise with me than He hath done, I had never come to the enjoyment of this crown of glory."”

— Samuel Rutherford

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 265.

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Scottish Reformed theologian 1600–1661

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