# Letters of Samuel Rutherford (Third Edition)

Author: Rutherford, Samuel, 1600?-1661; Bonar, Andrew A. (Andrew Alexander), 1810-1892 [Editor]

Genre: Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/42557

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Letters+of+Samuel+Rutherford+%28Third+Edition%29+Rutherford&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

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 promise she shall be Christ's. For I have told her she may promise much in His worthy name; for He becomes caution to His Father for all such as resolve and promise to serve Him. I will remember her to God. I trust you will acquaint her with good company, and be diligent to know with whom she loveth to haunt. Remember Zion, and our necessities. I bless your daughter from our Lord, and pray the Lord to give you joy and com...

## Chapters

- [Letter CXII. Her husband, to whom Rutherford expresses his obligations](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/letters-of-samuel-rutherford-third-edition-42557/chapters/10/index.md)
- [ii. 7, opened up the preciousness of Christ with such unction and](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/letters-of-samuel-rutherford-third-edition-42557/chapters/7/index.md)
- [lxvi. 7): yet the deliverance of the people was with the woman's going](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/letters-of-samuel-rutherford-third-edition-42557/chapters/13/index.md)
- [xlviii. 11), have made us (like the standing waters), to gather a foul](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/letters-of-samuel-rutherford-third-edition-42557/chapters/11/index.md)
- [Letter CXVII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/letters-of-samuel-rutherford-third-edition-42557/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Letter CXX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/letters-of-samuel-rutherford-third-edition-42557/chapters/9/index.md)
- [xxxii. 39); "The Lord bringeth down to the grave and bringeth up" (1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/letters-of-samuel-rutherford-third-edition-42557/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Letter CLVII.), wrote on her the following acrostic:--](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/letters-of-samuel-rutherford-third-edition-42557/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Letter CXXVII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/letters-of-samuel-rutherford-third-edition-42557/chapters/8/index.md)
- [Letter 74, "dought.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/letters-of-samuel-rutherford-third-edition-42557/chapters/14/index.md)
- [Letter VI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/letters-of-samuel-rutherford-third-edition-42557/chapters/1/index.md)
- [iv. 17) sufferings it had in following after Christ! Oh,](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/letters-of-samuel-rutherford-third-edition-42557/chapters/6/index.md)
- [Letter CCCXII.)](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/letters-of-samuel-rutherford-third-edition-42557/chapters/12/index.md)
- [did. I trust in my Lord to hold aloof from the enticings of a seducing](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/letters-of-samuel-rutherford-third-edition-42557/chapters/4/index.md)