You are not unacquainted with the day of our Communion.
I entreat, therefore, the aid of your prayers for that great work, which is one of our feast days, wherein our well-beloved Jesus rejoiceth and is merry with his friends.
Good cause have we to wonder at his love, since the day of his death was such a sorrowful day to him, even the day when his mother, the kirk [church], crowned him with thorns, and he has many against him, and appeared his lone in the fields against them all; yet he delights with us to remember that day. Let us love him, and be glad and rejoice at his salvation. I am confident that you shall see the Son of God that day, and I dare in his name invite you to his banquet.
- Samuel Rutherford in “A Letter to Marion M’Naught”, May 7, 1631 (from Letters of Samuel Rutherford, Puritan Paperbacks, p.20-21)
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