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  LXX. TO LADY KENMURE
  by Samuel Rutherford
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Summary: The sermon encourages listeners to persevere in their journey
to eternal glory, emphasizing the reward that awaits them and the hope
that sustains them on the way.

Topics: "Heavenly Hope", "Christian Perseverance"
Scripture References: Romans 8:18, Philippians 3:20, Hebrews 11:13, 1 Peter 1:3

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Samuel Rutherford preaches about the journey to the heavenly land,
emphasizing the joy of being in the presence of the Prince of the good
land and experiencing the unmatched glory and love awaiting believers.
He encourages perseverance despite the challenges, likening the
difficulties of the journey to a foul way leading to a fair home.
Rutherford expresses longing for the heavenly blessings and the hope
that sustains believers on their journey.

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MADAM, -- Oh how sweet is it that the company of the firstborn should be

divided into two great bodies of an army, and some in their country,

and some in the way to their country! If it were no more than once to

see the face of the Prince of this good land, and to be feasted for

eternity with the fatness, sweetness, dainties of the rays and beams of

matchless glory, and incomparable fountain-love, it were a well-spent

journey to creep hands and feet through seven deaths and seven hells,

to enjoy Him up at the well-head. Only let us not weary: the miles to

that land are fewer and shorter than when we first believed. Strangers

are not wise to quarrel with their host, and complain of their lodging.

It is a foul way, but a fair home. Oh that I had but such grapes and

clusters out of the land as I have sometimes seen and tasted in the

place whereof your Ladyship maketh mention! But the hope of it in the

end is a heart some convoy in the way.

Grace be with you.

Your Ladyship's, in Jesus Christ.

LONDON, Jan. 26, 1646

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