A Brighter Day Begins with His Word.

Rutherford, Samuel, 1600?-1661 • SECTION 36

POSTHUMOUS.

← Letters of Samuel Rutherford (Third Edition)

17. _Joshua Redivivus; or, Mr. Rutherford's Letters._ First Edition, 12mo, 1664. No printer's name and no place mentioned.

18. _Examen Arminianismi._ Ultrajecti (Utrecht), 12mo, 1668.

19. _A Testimony left by Mr. S. Rutherford to the Work of Reformation in Great Britain and Ireland before his death._ Date uncertain.

20. _Twelve Communion Sermons._ Glasgow, 1876. This collection includes _Christ's Napkin_; and Song ii. 14-17, _Christ and the Dove's Heavenly Salutation_. These have internal evidence in their favour, viz. the language and general strain of thought. Add to these _The Lamb's Marriage_, Rev. xix. 7; and another on Song ii. 1-8 appended to a second edition, 1877, with the title, "Fourteen Communion Sermons," 1877.

21. _The Cruel Watchmen. The Door of Salvation Opened._ Edinburgh, 1735. Song v. 7, 8, 9, 10. These two are doubtful; at all events, very imperfect, as usually printed. The old edition of _The Cruel Watchmen_ is good.

22. There is a _Treatise on Prayer; The Power and Prevalency of Truth and Prayer evidenced, in a Practical Discourse upon_ Matt. ix. 27-31. Printed in the year 1713. It is a small duodecimo of 111 pp., and has this note appended: "The rest of this Discourse cannot be found, it being above fifty years since the author died."

An old _Catalogue of the most Vendible Books_, in 1658, gives as one of his works, _A Rationale on the Book of Common Prayer_, 8vo. But this is a mistake; Antony Sparrow wrote the book entitled, _The Rationale, or Practical Exposition of the Book of Common Prayer_.

The Diaries of Brodie of Brodie (Spalding Club--Preface p. xix.), refer to "Shorthand Notes of two Sermons by S. Rutherford." Brodie used to correspond with him, for we find, August 6, 1655: "Mr. Rutherford exhorted me in his letter that my right hand might not know what my left hand did; and he says that he knows not but that the Lord may divorce the mother, but be a sanctuary to the little ones." We find further that S. R. wrote urging Brodie "to present Mr. Thomas Ross to Ila."

23. _Quaint Sermons_ (eighteen in number), by S. R., never before published, with a prefatory note by Rev. And. A. Bonar. Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1885.

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