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| Titre : | The Letters of Samuel Rutherford |
| Auteurs : | Samuel Rutherford, Auteur |
| Type de document : | texte imprimé |
| Mention d'édition : | New edition |
| Editeur : | Chicago [USA] : Moody Bible Institute of Chicago (Moody Press), 1951 |
| Collection : | Wycliffe series of Christian Classics |
| Format : | 480 p. |
| Note générale : | This edition is based on the authoritative edition of Andrew A. Bonar (1891) |
| Langues: | Anglais |
| Index. décimale : | MD (Edification, vie chrétienne, témoignage (classement alphabétique par auteur)) |
| Résumé : |
SAMUEL RUTHERFORD (1600-1661)
It is thought that Samuel Rutherford was born near Nisbet, Scotland. He was educated at the College in Edinburgh, and in 1627 became pastor at Anwoth. Later he accepted the Principalship of the New College in St. Andrews. Though his elocution was not good and his voice was shrill, he is known as one of the most moving preachers of his generation, if not of the Church. In 1651, his book, De Divina Pro videntia, brought him renown and offers of professorships from foreign universities. After Charles II had started his arbitrary measures, Rutherford’s book on the law and the king (Lex Rex') was noted, and its spirit of freedom and upholding of liberty for the subjects became intolerable to a king and his cohorts who were planning cruelty and death. The book was burned and its author summoned before Parliament on charges of high treason. Rutherford was already on his deathbed and he replied, "I behove to answer my first summons; and, ere your day arrive, I will be where few kings and great folks come.” So he passed from this life in 1661 ; had he lived a few more weeks, he might have suffered the martyr’s death endured by James Guthrie, whom he had encouraged to remain steadfast to the end. Rutherford’s Letters first appeared in 1664, and have since that time been famous among the godly. Most of his correspondents lived in Galloway or Ayrshire, and many were of high rank. Rutherford had a facile pen, and often suggested "by a few strokes very much that was pr< found and impressive.” A real hear interest in the spiritual welfare of h friends permeates the Letters. His coi respondence was voluminous, especial! during his exile in Aberdeen; and li would have written more but that he ha heard his letters praised too much. It has been said that he was extravagant in sentiment, but the feeling came from a loving heart and there was no extravagance in the thoughts conveyed. We would say of him as Livingstone said of John Welsh's dying words, "Oh, for a sweet fill of his fanatic humor!" The Puritan, Richard Baxter, whose theological leanings might have prejudice him, if anything could, said of his Letters that except for the Bible, the world never had seen such a book. |
| Note de contenu : |
- Preface (Frank E. Gaebelein)
- Rutherford Today (Frank E. Gaebelein) - Sketch of Samuel Rutherford (Abridged from Andrew A. Bonar) - Letters |
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