# “You will think you have had enough” by John Brown of Haddington

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- Published: 2009-02-06T16:06:29-06:00
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“I know the vanity of your heart, and that you will feel mortified that your congregation
is very small, in comparison with those of your brethren around you; but assure 
yourself on the word of an old man, that when you come to give an account of them
to the Lord Christ, at His judgment-seat, you will think you have had enough.”

–John Brown, in a letter of paternal counsel written to one of his pupils newly 
ordained over a small congregation, cited by Alexander Grossart in _The Complete
Works of Richard Sibbes, Vol. 1_, Ed. Alexander Grossart (1862-1864; reprint, Edinburgh:
Banner of Truth Trust, 1979), 294.

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