# Samuel Rutherford and Some of His Correspondents Author: Whyte, Alexander, 1836-1921 Genre: Category: Biographies Language: English License: Public domain Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/16892 Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Samuel+Rutherford+and+Some+of+His+Correspondents+Whyte&tag=cyberlibrar00-20 ## Summary Samuel Rutherford, the author of the seraphic _Letters_, was born in the south of Scotland in the year of our Lord 1600. Thomas Goodwin was born in England in the same year, Robert Leighton in 1611, Richard Baxter in 1615, John Owen in 1616, John Bunyan in 1628, and John Howe in 1630. A little vellum-covered volume now lies open before me, the title-page of which runs thus:--'Joshua Redivivus, or Mr. Rutherford's Letters, now published for the use of the people of God: but more particularly for those who now are, or may afterwards be, put to suffering for Christ and His cause. By a well-wisher to the work and to the people of God. Printed in the year 1664.' That is all. It would not have... ## Chapters - [Chapter 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/samuel-rutherford-and-some-of-his-correspondents-16892/chapters/3/index.md) - [Chapter 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/samuel-rutherford-and-some-of-his-correspondents-16892/chapters/6/index.md) - [Chapter 14](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/samuel-rutherford-and-some-of-his-correspondents-16892/chapters/14/index.md) - [Chapter 11](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/samuel-rutherford-and-some-of-his-correspondents-16892/chapters/11/index.md) - [Chapter 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/samuel-rutherford-and-some-of-his-correspondents-16892/chapters/4/index.md) - [Chapter 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/samuel-rutherford-and-some-of-his-correspondents-16892/chapters/8/index.md) - [Chapter 9](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/samuel-rutherford-and-some-of-his-correspondents-16892/chapters/9/index.md) - [Chapter 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/samuel-rutherford-and-some-of-his-correspondents-16892/chapters/2/index.md) - [Chapter 10](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/samuel-rutherford-and-some-of-his-correspondents-16892/chapters/10/index.md) - [Chapter 12](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/samuel-rutherford-and-some-of-his-correspondents-16892/chapters/12/index.md) - [Chapter 13](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/samuel-rutherford-and-some-of-his-correspondents-16892/chapters/13/index.md) - [Chapter 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/samuel-rutherford-and-some-of-his-correspondents-16892/chapters/5/index.md) - [Chapter 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/samuel-rutherford-and-some-of-his-correspondents-16892/chapters/1/index.md) - [Chapter 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/samuel-rutherford-and-some-of-his-correspondents-16892/chapters/7/index.md) - [Chapter 15](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/samuel-rutherford-and-some-of-his-correspondents-16892/chapters/15/index.md)