16. Another, 1824. Glasgow. With brief notice of the author.
17. The Edition of 1825. One of "Collins' Select Christian Authors." It passed through three editions. It has a doctrinal Preface by Thomas Erskine, Esq., and gives about one half of the Letters. It has not retained all the peculiar phraseology of the original; but it gives some account of his life, and appends his "Last Words," and his "Testimony to the Covenanted Work of Reformation." _Kenmure_ is misspelt "_Kenmuir_" in the edition of 1825, but corrected in the next.
18. The Edition of 1830. Glasgow.
19. Another in 1834.
20. The Edition of 1836. London: Baisler. Edited by Rev. Charles Thomson. In two vols. It has valuable explanatory notes, and the Letters are, for the most part, arranged chronologically,--a great improvement on the "Three Parts" of so many former editions.
21. The Edition of 1839.
22. The Edition of 1846. Aberdeen: King. This edition is in double columns.
23. The Edition of 1848. Edinburgh: Whyte and Kennedy. With historical and biographical notices, by Rev. James Anderson. The Letters, so far, chronologically arranged, and ten additional Letters given. Contents also, and indices; and a Sketch of Rutherford's Life.
24. The Edition of 1857. London: Collingridge. Edited by Rev. D. A. Doubdney. It has the long Original Preface of 1664, and the Postscript of 1675; also a synopsis of each Letter. But it is not accurate, especially as to proper names.
25. The Edition of 1863. In two vols. It contains Letters 290, 325, 327, 336, 337, 340, 343, 355, 356, 365, not found in any previous edition but that of 1848; as well as 283 and 307, added since then. There are 365 in all; one for each day of the year, if any one chooses.
26. An Edition in octavo, by Rev. J. M'Ewan, Edinburgh,--a reprint of the old. 1867.
27. _Extracts._--There have been abridgments in the form of "Extracts," from time to time. We might give as samples, Jo. Wesley's Extracts (an edition in 1825); John Brown of Haddington's "Pleasant and Practical Hints," selected from the Letters; and recently, "Last Words of S. R., in verse, by A. R. C., with some of his sweet sayings." A variety of such have appeared.
28. Edition 1875. By Dr. Thomas Smith. Preface by Dr. Duff.
29. _Foreign Editions._--1. There is an _American_ Edition; a reprint, by Carter, New York, of the Edition of 1848.--2. A _Dutch_ translation appeared at Flushing in 1673. The translation made by Mr. Koelman, minister of Sluys, with a brief Life. Of this there have been frequent reprints; that of 1754 is in three vols. octavo; another in 1855,--a new translation in double columns, published at Grave.--3. There is also a _German_ translation (see "Mission of Inquiry to the Jews, 1839," ch. v.); but we are not able to give any account of it.
30. This present Edition, 1891. Edinburgh: Oliphant, Anderson, & Ferrier. Reprinted 1894.