I have been much challenged:
11) Nothing more moveth me, and
burdenth my soul, than that I could never, in my prosperity, so wrestle in
prayer with God, nor be so dead to the world, so hungry and sick of love for
Christ, so heavenly-minded, as when ten stone weight of a heavy cross was upon
me.
12) that the cross extorted vows of new obedience, which ease hath
blown away, as chaff before the wind.
13) That practice was so short and
narrow, and light so long and broad.
14) that death hath not been often
meditated upon.
15) That I have not been careful of gaining others to
Christ.
16) that my grace and gifts bring forth little or no
thankfulness.
From The Letters of Samuel Rutherford
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