“The bloom fell off my branches and joy did cast off its flower”

—  Samuel Rutherford

Letter 185 (to Marion M' Naught) Aberdeen , 1837
Letters of Samuel Rutherford (Andrew Bonar)

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Scottish Reformed theologian 1600–1661

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