"Your heart is not the compass Christ saileth by. He will give you leave to sing as you please, but he will not dance to your tune. It is not referred to you and your thoughts, what Christ will do with the charters betwixt you and him. Your own misbelief hath torn them, but he hath the principle in heaven with himself. Your thoughts are no parts of the new covenant; dreams change not Christ."
---Samuel Rutherford, Letter to Earlston, Younger, June 16, 1637 (Puritan Paperback, p. 87)
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
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