Extracts from Samuel Rutherford

WHEN I look to my guiltiness, I see my salvation, one of our Saviour’s greatest miracles, either in heaven or earth. I am sure I may defy any man to show me a greater wonder. ONLY my loathsome wretchedness and my wants have qualified me for Christ, and the riches of His glorious grace. He behooved to take me for nothing.
FAITH apprehends pardon, but never pays a penny for it.
IN conversion, all the winning is in the first buying. Many lay false foundations, and take up conversion at their foot, and get Christ for as good as half nothing, and had never a sick night for sin; and this maketh loose work.