Letters of Samuel Rutherford (Abridged) - Puritan Paperbacks (Rutherford)

Author:

Rutherford, Samuel

$9.00

$11.00

(You save $2.00 )

(No reviews yet) Write a Review

SKU:

9780851511634

Publisher:

Banner of Truth

Format:

Paperback

Pages:

206

Description
Specifications

Description

Like John Bunyan in Bedford gaol, Samuel Rutherford did his best work while suffering imprisonment for the gospel.

His opponents had meant to silence him but instead they perpetuated his ministry through the centuries for it was out of this period that most of his famous Letters came. Addressed to high and low they were so prized by the recipients that the first collection by Robert McWard appeared in 1664 just three years after Rutherford’s death. The successive editions contained more letters until they grew to the 365 in Andrew Bonar’s classic edition.

From this, ‘the most remarkable series of devotional letters that the literature of the Reformed churches can show’, the great leaders in the Church as well as the humblest Christians have drawn strength. It is said of Robert Murray M’Cheyne that ‘the Letters of Samuel Rutherford were often in his hand.’ This abridged edition contains sixty-nine of these letters.

Contents

1	TO A CHRISTIAN GENTLEWOMAN
	[On the death of a daughter]
2	TO MARION M’NAUGHT16
	Submission, perseverance and zeal recommended
3	TO LADY KENMURE
	God’s inexplicable dealings with his people well-ordered
4	TO MARION M’NAUGH
	[In prospect of the Lord’s Supper]
5	TO MARION M’NAUGHT
	The threatened introduction of the Service-Book
6	TO JOHN KENNEDY
	Deliverance from shipwreck
7	TO LADY KENMURE
	A union for prayer recommended
8	TO LADY KENMURE
	[On the death of Lord Kenmure)
9	TO MARION M’NAUGHT
	The prospect of exile in Aberdeen
10	TO LADY KENMURE
	[On the eve of banishment to Aberdeen)
11	TO LADY CULROSS
	[On the occasion of banishment to Aberdeen)
12	TO ROBERT CUNNINGHAM
	Consolation to a brother in tribulation
13	TO ALEXANDER GORDON
	Rutherford’s feeling upon leaving Anworth
14	TO LADY KENMURE
	Rutherford’s enjoyment of Christ in Aberdeen
15	TO HUGH M’KAIL
	Christ to be trusted amid trial
16	TO MARION M’NAUGHT
	Comfort under tribulations
17	TO JOHN GORDON, ELDER
	Will Christ at all hazards
18	TO ROBERT BLAIR
	God’s arrangements sometimes mysterious
19	TO ROBERT GORDON
	Visits of Christ
20	TO LADY KENMURE
	None worthy but Christ
21	TO DAVID DICKSON
	God’s dealings
22	TO ALEXANDER HENDERSON
	Sadness because Christ’s Headship not set forth
23	TO JOHN GORDON, YOUNGER
	Reasons for being earnest about the soul
24	TO MARION M’NAUGHT
	Adherence to duty amidst opposition
25	TO WILLIAM LIVINGSTONE
	Counsel to a youth
26	TO THB LAIRD OF CARLETON
	Increasing sense of Christ’s love
27	TO JOHN FLEMING
	Directions for Christian conduct
28	TO LADY BOYD
	Lessons learned in the school of adversity
29	TO JOHN STUART
	Commercial misfortunes
30	TO DAVID DICKSON
	Christ’s infinite fulness
31	TO JOHN CLARK
	Marks of difference between Christians and
32	TO EARLSTON, YOUNGER
	Dangers of youth
33	TO WILLIAM DALGLEISH
	Fragrance of the ministry
34	TO JOHN STUART
	Hope for Scotland
35	TO EARLSTOH, YOUNGER
	Sufferings
36	TO WILLIAM GORDON
	Testimony to Christ’s worth
37	TO JOHN HENDERSON
	Practical hints
38	TO ALEXANDER COLVILL
	Regrets for being silenced in ministry
39	TO JAMES HAMILTON
	Suffering for Christ’s Headship
40	TO PARISHIONERS OF ANWOTH
	Protestation of care for their souls and for the glory of God
41	TO LADY KILCONQUHAR
	The interests of the soul most urgent
42	TO LORD CRAIGHALL
	Standing for Christ
43	TO HUGH M’KAIL
	The Law
44	TO FULK ELLIS
	Friends in Ireland
45	TO JAMBS LINDSAY
	Desertions and their use
46	TO JAMBS HAMILTON
	Christ’s glory not affected by his people’s weakness
47	TO LADY GAIT GIRTH
	Christ all example in Cross-bearing
48	TO MARION M’NAUGHT
	Prospects of his ministry
49	TO JAMES BAUTIE
	Spiritual difficulties resolved
50	TO THOMAS CORBET
	Godly counsels
51	TO WILLIAM GLENDINNING
	Sweetness of trial
52	TO MARION M’NAUGHT
	A Spring-tide of Christ’s love
53	TO JOHN GORDON
	Heaven hard to be won
54	TO PARISHIONERS OF KILMALCOLM
	Spiritual sloth
55	TO ALEXANDER LEIGHTON