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The Letters of Samuel Rutherford


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#1 Josh H

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Posted 26 April 2013 - 04:35 PM

I found this text on project Gutenberg, this would make a great module.

 

Concerning the Letters, Spurgeon wrote: "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".

 

That's quite a recommendation!!!

 

This is from Banner of Truth's website...

 

Description: These letters will ever be precious to all who are sensible of their own, and the Church's decay and corruptions- The wound and the cure are therein so fully opened out: self is exposed, specially spiritual self. He will tell you, 'There is as much need to watch over grace, as to watch over sin.' He will show you God in Christ, to fill up the place usurped by self. The subleties of sin, idols, snares, temptations, self-deceptions, are dragged into view from time to time. And what is better still, the cords of Christ are twined round the roots of these bitter plants, that they may be plucked up. Nor is it otherwise in regard to corruption in public, and in the Church. We do not mean merely the open corruption of error, but also the secret 'gray hairs' of decay. Hear him cry, 'There is universal deadness on that fear of God. O where are the sometime quickening breathings and influences from heaven that have refreshed His hidden ones!' And then he laments, in the name of the saints, 'We are half satisfied with out witherdness; nor have we as much of his strain who doth eight times breathe out that suit, Quicken me!' 'We live far from the well, and ocmplain but dryly of our dryness.'- Andrew Bonar

 

So if anyone is interested in making it into a module, here is the link...

 

http://www.gutenberg...7-h/42557-h.htm



#2 LarryG

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Posted 26 April 2013 - 05:40 PM

Just a note of affirmation:

 

Rutherfords letters are great reading and have been used for devotional reading by many in the church during the past couple of centuries.



#3 Josh Bond

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Posted 26 April 2013 - 11:59 PM

I can do this fairly easily, while keeping the footnotes together and linked.






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