Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches
WELL-BELOVED AND DEAR SISTER,--My love in Christ remembered. I have sent to you your daughter Grizel with Robert Gordon, who came to fetch her. I am in good hopes that the seed of God is in her, as in one born of God; and God's seed will come to God's harvest. I have her promi...
WELL-BELOVED AND DEAR SISTER,--My love in Christ remembered. I have sent to you your daughter Grizel with Robert Gordon, who came to fetch her. I am in good hopes that the seed...
2. Letter CLVII.), wrote on her the following acrostic:--M More happy than imaginèd can be, A And blessed, are such as with heart sincere R Resolve to cleave to Christ, to live and die I In Him, with Him, and for Him to appear. O O wh...
3. xxxii. 39); "The Lord bringeth down to the grave and bringeth up" (1Sam. ii. 6). If Satan were jailor, and had the keys of death and of the grave, they should be stored with more prisoners. Ye were knocking at these black gates, and ye found the...
4. did. I trust in my Lord to hold aloof from the enticings of a seducingheart, by which I am daily cosened; and I mind not (by His grace who hath called me according to His eternal purpose) to come so far within the grips of my foolish mind, grippin...
5. Letter CXVII.The King is certainly expected. Ill is feared; we have cause for our sins to fear that the Bridegroom shall be taken from us. By our sins we have rent His fair garments, and we...
6. iv. 17) sufferings it had in following after Christ! Oh,thrice-blinded souls, whose hearts are charmed and bewitched with dreams, shadows, feckless things, night-vanities, and night-fancies of a miserable life of sin! Shame on us who...
7. ii. 7, opened up the preciousness of Christ with such unction andseriousness, that it proved, by the power of the Holy Spirit, the means of his conversion. In that sermon he closed with Christ, and then took his seat at the Lord's Table, thou...
8. Letter CXXVII.DEAR AND LOVING FRIEND,--I cannot but, upon the opportunity of a bearer, exhort you to resign the love of your youth to Christ; and in this day, while your sun is high and your...
9. Letter CXX.MY REVEREND AND DEAR BROTHER,--I fear that ye have never known me well. If ye saw my inner side, it is possible that ye would pity me, but you would hardly give me either love o...
10. Letter CXII. Her husband, to whom Rutherford expresses his obligationsin the close of this letter, was a man of worth. He was made Sheriff-Principal of Ayrshire in 1632; and in 1633, he and Sir William Cunningham of Cunninghamhead represented Ayrs...
11. xlviii. 11), have made us (like the standing waters), to gather a foulscum, and, when we are jumbled, our dregs come up, and are seen. Many take but half a grip of Christ, and the wind bloweth them and Christ asunder. Indeed, when the mast is brok...
12. Letter CCCXII.)WORTHY FRIEND,--Grace be to you. I do unwillingly write unto you of that which God hath done concerning your son-in-law; only, I believe ye look not below Christ, and the highes...
13. lxvi. 7): yet the deliverance of the people was with the woman's goingwith child seventy years. That is more than nine months. There be many oppositions in carrying on the work; but I hope that the Lord will build His own Zion, and evidence to us...
14. Letter 74, "dought._Fenced_; guarded; also constituted; a law term, used of opening a Court and proclaiming the authority by which the Court was held and the object of it. 77, 82, 112, 146, 161.