Samuel Rutherford (Letters, pp. 505-506):
Within a little while, policy against truth shall blush, and the works of men shall be burned up, even their spider’s-web who spin out many hundred ells and webs of indifference in the Lord’s worship; more than ever Moses, who would have a hoof material (Exod. 10:26), and Daniel, who would have a look out at a window a matter of life and death, than ever, I say, these men of God dreamed of.
Alas! that men dare to shape, carve, cut, and clip our King’s princely testament in length and breadth, and in all dimensions, answerable to the conception of such policy, as a head-of-wit thinketh a safe and trim way of serving God! How have men forgotten the Lord, that they dare to go against even that truth which once they preached themselves, howbeit their sermons now be as thin sown as strawberries in a wood or wilderness!
Certainly the sweetest and safest course is, for this short time of the afternoon of this old and declining world, to stand for Jesus. He hath said it, and it is our part to believe it, that ere it be long, “Time shall be no more, and the heaven shall wax old, as a garment.”
Alas! that men dare to shape, carve, cut, and clip our King’s princely testament in length and breadth, and in all dimensions, answerable to the conception of such policy, as a head-of-wit thinketh a safe and trim way of serving God! How have men forgotten the Lord, that they dare to go against even that truth which once they preached themselves, howbeit their sermons now be as thin sown as strawberries in a wood or wilderness!
Certainly the sweetest and safest course is, for this short time of the afternoon of this old and declining world, to stand for Jesus. He hath said it, and it is our part to believe it, that ere it be long, “Time shall be no more, and the heaven shall wax old, as a garment.”
