A Brighter Day Begins with His Word.

Rutherford, Samuel, 1600?-1661 • SECTION 15

Part 15

← Letters of Samuel Rutherford (Third Edition)

336. To _Lady Ralston, Ursula Mure_.--Duty of Preferring to Live rather than Die--Want of Union in the judgments of the Godly, 665

337. To _a Minister of Glasgow_.--Encouraging Words to a Suffering Brother--Why men shrink from Christ's Testimony, 668

338. To _Lady Kenmure_.--A Word to Cheer in Times of Darkness, 671

339. To _Grizzel Fullerton_.--Exhortation to Follow Christ fully when others are cold, 672

340. To _Mr. Thomas Wylie_.--Regarding a Letter of Explanation, 673

341. To _Lady Kenmure_.--Present Need helped by past Experience, 674

342. To _Colonel Gilbert Ker_.--Deadness--Hopes of Refreshment--Distance from God--Nearness Delighted in, 675

343. To _Colonel Gilbert Ker_.--The State of the Land, 678

344. To _Mr. John Scot, at Oxnam_.--Excuse for Absence from Duty, 679

345. To _Lady Kenmure_.--Thoughts for a Time of Sickness about the Life to Come, 680

346. To _Simeon Ashe_.--Views of the Presbyterians as to Allegiance to the Protector, 681

347. To _Lady Kenmure_.--Unkindness of the Creature--God's Sovereignty in permitting His Children to be Injured by Men, 682

348. To _Lady Kenmure_.--God's Dealings with the Land, 683

349. To _Mr. John Scot, at Oxnam_.--Protesters' Toleration, 683

350. To _Mr. John Scot, at Oxnam_.--Gloomy Times--Means of promoting Godliness, 684

351. To _Mr. James Durham, Minister of Glasgow, some few days before his Death_.--Man's Ways not God's Ways, 685

352. To _Mr. John Scot, at Oxnam_.--Adherence to the Testimony against Toleration, 686

353. To _Lady Kenmure_.--Trials--Deadness of the Spirit-- Danger of False Security, 686

354. To _Lady Kenmure_.--Prevailing Declension, Decay, and Indifference to God's Dealings--Things Future, 688

355. To _the Presbytery of Kirkcudbright_.--Union-- Humiliation--Choice of a Professor, 689

356. To _Mr. John Murray, Minister at Methven._--A Synod Proposal for Union--Brethren under Censure, 691

357. To _Mr. Guthrie, Mr. Trail, and the rest of their Brethren imprisoned in the Castle of Edinburgh_.-- On Suffering for Christ--God's Presence ever with His People--Firmness and Constancy, 692

358. To _Several Brethren_.--Reasons for Petitioning his Majesty after his return, and for owning such as were censured while about so necessary a Duty, 694

359. To _a Brother Minister_.--Judgment of a Draught of a Petition, to have been presented to the Committee of Estates, 696

360. To _Lady Kenmure, on the Imprisonment of her Brother, the Marquis of Argyle_.--God's Judgments--Calls to Flee to Him--The Results of timid Compliance, 698

361. To _Mistress Craig, upon the Death of her hopeful Son_.--Nine Reasons for Resignation, 699

362. To _Mr. James Guthrie, Minister of the Gospel at Stirling_.--Stedfast though Persecuted--Blessedness of Martyrdom, 701

363. To _Mr. Robert Campbell_.--Stedfastness to Protest against Prelacy and Popery, 703

364. To _Believers at Aberdeen_.--Sinful Conformity and Schismatic Designs reproved, 701

365. To _Mr. John Murray, Minister at Methven_.--Proposal of a Season of Prayer, 708

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Index of the Chief Places and Individuals referred to in the Letters, 711

Index of Special Subjects, 715

Glossary, 718

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