Letters of Samuel Rutherford

With a Sketch of his Life and Biographical Notices of His Correspondents
by Andrew A. Bonar. What a wealth of spiritual ravishment we have
here! Rutherford is beyond all praise of men. Like a strong-winged eagle he
soars into the highest heaven and with unblenched eye he looks into the mystery
of love divine. There is, to us, something mysterious, awe-creating and
superhuman about Rutherford's letters. This edition is a noble volume, and we
shall measure the soundness of Scotch religion very much by the sale of this
work. One page of Rutherford is worth a thousand tomes of the Downgrade
frothiness. We think it meet to take a paragraph from Dr Andrew Bonar's
prefatory sketch: 'The extravagance in sentiment alleged against them by some
is just that of Paul, when he spoke of knowing 'the height and depth, length
and breadth' of the love of Christ; or that of Solomon when the Holy Ghost
inspired him to write 'The Song of Songs'. Rather would we say of these letters
what John Livingston, in a letter, says of John Welsh's dying words' 'O for a
sweet of this fanatic humor!' In modern days Richard Cecil has said of
Rutherford, 'He is one of my Classics; he is a real original'; and in older
time, Richard Baxter, some of whose theological leanings might have prejudiced
him, if anything could, said of his Letters, 'Hold off the Bible, such a book
the world never saw'. 'When we are dead and gone let the world know that
Spurgeon held Rutherford's Letters to be the nearest thing to inspiration which
can be found in all the writings of mere men.' - C.H.
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