Letters of Samuel Rutherford(third Edition)
1664
Letters of Samuel Rutherford(third Edition)
1664
These are the private letters of a man who knew suffering and wrote about it with extraordinary tenderness. Samuel Rutherford, the 17th-century Scottish minister, poured his soul into correspondence with friends, parishioners, and strangers wrestling with faith, doubt, and the dark night of the soul. Banished from his church for his Presbyterian convictions, watching his wife die slowly, facing his own mortality, Rutherford wrote not as a theologian dispensing doctrine but as a fellow traveler who had walked through the valley and emerged still believing. His letters crackle with a rare quality: spiritual wisdom that never feels condescending, comfort that never shames, and a way of seeing Christ that makes the divine feel achingly near. The reader discovers someone who prayed with his whole body, who wept for souls he had not yet won, who found in affliction not punishment but strange mercy. These letters have sustained readers for three and a half centuries because they offer what we all need: proof that another human being has faced what we face and found, in the end, that love has neither brim nor bottom.
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“Christ is a well of life, but who knoweth how deep it is to the bottom? This soul of ours hath love, and cannot but love some fair one; and O, what a fair One, what an only One, what an excellent, lovely, ravishing One is Jesus.””
— Samuel Rutherford
“Christ and His cross together are sweet company, and a blessed couple. My prison is my palace, my losses are rich losses, my pain easy pain, my heavy days are holy and happy days.””
— Samuel Rutherford
“Our pride must have winter weather to rot it.””
— Samuel Rutherford
“When we shall come home and enter to the possession of our Brother’s fair kingdom, and when our heads shall find the weight of the eternal crown of glory, and when we shall look back to pains and sufferings; then shall we see life and sorrow to be less than one step or stride from a prison to glory; and that our little inch of time-suffering is not worthy of our first night’s welcome home to heaven.””
— Samuel Rutherford
“She is not sent away, but only sent before, like unto a star, which, going out of your sight, doth not die and vanish, but shineth in another hemisphere: ye see her not yet, she doth shine in another country.””
— Samuel Rutherford
“Let Christ’s love bear most court in your soul, and that court will bear down the love of other things. Christ chargeth me to believe His daylight at midnight.””
— Samuel Rutherford
“The good husbandman may pluck His roses and gather in His liles at midsummer, and, for ought I dare say, in the beginning of the first summer month; and He may transplant young trees out of the lower ground to the higher, where they have more of the sun, and a more free air, at any season of the year. What is that to you or me? The goods are his own.””
— Samuel Rutherford
“I am in as sweet communion with Christ as a poor sinner can be; and am only pained that He hath much beauty and fairness, and I little love; He great power and mercy, and I little faith; He much light, and I bleared eyes.””
— Samuel Rutherford
“I am most gladly content that Christ breaketh all my idols in pieces: it hath put a new edge upon my blunted love to Christ. I see He is jealous of my love, and will have all to Himself.””
— Samuel Rutherford
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