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====================================Samuel RutherfordA Selection from his Letters====================================ContentsForeword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1I. To LADY KENMURE, at a time of illness and spiritual depression . . 1II. To LADY KENMURE, on the occasion of the death of her infant daughter 1III. To MARION MCNAUGHT, when his wife was ill . . . . . . . . . . . . 1IV. To LADY KENMURE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2V. To LADY KENMURE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2VI. To MARION MCNAUGHT, when persecuted for her principles . . . . . . 2VII. To LADY KENMURE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2VIII. To JOHN KENNEDY, on his deliverance from shipwreck . . . . . . . 2IX. To LADY KENMURE, on the perils of rank and prosperity . . . . . . 2X. To LADY KENMURE, on the death of her husband . . . . . . . . . . . 2XI. To lady KENMURE, when he expected to be removed from Anwoth . . . 2XII. To lady KENMURE, on the eve of his banishment to Aberdeen . . . . 3XIII. To LADY KENMURE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3XIV. To LADY KENMURE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3XV To LADY BOYD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3XVI. To MR ROBERT BLAIR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3XVII. To ROBERT GORDON OF KNOCKBREX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3XVIII. To ALEXANDER GORDON OF EARLSTON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3XIX. To LADY KENMURE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3XX. To lady KENMURE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3XXI. To MR WILLIAM DALGLEISH, minister of the Gospel . . . . . . . . . 4XXII. To MR HUGH MACKAIL, minister of the Gospel at Irvine . . . . . . 4XXIII. To JOHN EWART, Bailie of Kirkcudbright . . . . . . . . . . . . 4XXIV. To WILLIAM LIVINGSTONE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4XXV. To MR GEORGE GILLESPIE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
 
XXVI. To JOHN GORDON OF RUSSO in the parish of Anwoth . . . . . . . . 4XXVII. To LADY HALHILL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4XXVIII. To PATRICK CARSEN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4XXIX. To JOHN STUART, Provost of Aye . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4XXX. To JOIN STUART, Provost of Ayr . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4XXXI. To NINIAN MURE, a parishioner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4XXXII To JOHN GORDON OF CARDONESS, the elder . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5XXXIII. To JOHN CLARK, a parishioner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5XXXIV. To JOHN GORDON OF CARDONESS, the younger . . . . . . . . . . . 5XXXV. To JOHN FULLERTON of Carleton in Galloway . . . . . . . . . . . 5XXXVI. To JOHN GORDON OF CARDONESS, the elder . . . . . . . . . . . . 5XXXVII. To EARLSTON, the younger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5XXXVIII. To MR WILLIAM DALGLEISH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5XXXIX. To MARION MCNAUGHT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5XL. To ROBERT STEWART, on his decision for Christ . . . . . . . . . . 6XLI. To LADY GAITGIRTH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6XLII. To THE REV.JOHN FERGUSON OF OCHILTREE . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6XLIII. To ROBERT BROWN OF CARSLUTH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6XLIV. To CASSIN CARRIE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6XLV. To JOHN LENNOX, Laird of Catty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6XLVI. To JOHN GORDON OF CARDONESS, the younger . . . . . . . . . . . . 6XLVII. To WILLIAM GORDON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6XLVIII. To LADY KENMURE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6XLIX. To MRS STUART, wife of the Provost of Aye . . . . . . . . . . . 6L. To MR JAMES FLEMING . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7Ll. To MR FULK ELLIS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7LII. To MR MATTHEW MOWAT, minister of Kilmarnock . . . . . . . . . . . 7LIII. To JAMES BAUTIE, theological student . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7LIV. To MR ROBERT BLAIR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7LV. To ROBERT LENNOX OF DISDOVE, near Gatehouse . . . . . . . . . . . 7
 
LVI. To EARLSTON, the younger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7LVII. To LADY BOYD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7LVIII. To LADY ROBERT LAND . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8LIX. To THE HONORABLE, REVEREND, AND WELL-BELOVED PROFESSORS OF CHRISTAND HIS TRUTH IN SINCERITY, IN IRELAND . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8LX. To LADY KENMURE, on the death of her son, John, second ViscountKenmure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8LXI. To MR JAMES WILSON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8LXII. To LADY BOYD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8LXIII. To LADY FINGASK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8LXIV. To MR DAVID DICKSON, on the death of his son . . . . . . . . . . 8LXV. To LADY BOYD, on the loss of several friends . . . . . . . . . . 9LXVI. To MR. TAYLOR, on her son's death . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9LXVII. To BARBARA HAMILTON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9LXVIII. To A CHRISTIAN BROTHER, on the death of his daughter . . . . . 9LXIX. To A CHRISTIAN GENTLEWOMAN, on her death-bed . . . . . . . . . . 9LXX. To LADY KENMURE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9LXXI. To LADY ARDROSS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9Glossary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9ForewordSamuel Rutherford nearly ended his days on a scaffold. But he was alreadyon his deathbed when he was summoned to appear at the bar of the ScottishHouse to answer a charge of treason. 'Tell them,' he said to theofficers, 'that I have a summons already from a superior Judge andindicator, and I behave to answer my first summons; and see your dayarrives I shall be where few kings and great folk come.' That higher summons he answered on March 29, 1661.Charles II had returned to his throne largely by the assistance of thePresbyterians of England and Scotland, after the exchange of solemnassurances of religious and political liberty and tolerance. But once inthe seat of power again Charles and his government showed their truecolours. A carefully packed Scottish Parliament -- 'the Drunken Parliament'-- assembled on New Year's Day, 1661. One of its actions was to mark for execution four of the outstanding leaders of the Covenantors, among whomwas Rutherford, then Principal of New College and Rector of theUniversity of St. Andrew. Not the least of his crimes was the authorship
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