Letters of Samuel Rutherford (Complete and Unabridged) 8 of 64

Rutherford's actual letters start on message 9 of 64.

This message (#8) contains part of Andrew Bonar's 'Sketch of Samuel Rutherford.'

Rutherford was one of the Scottish commissioners to the Westminster Assembly and has been acknowledged by many Reformed theologians since his time as a theological genius of the first order.

Walker said of Rutherford, 'It is not easy to find any one in Church history with whom to compare this remarkable man... a man of power, I may say of genius, fresh, bold, penetrating, to whom no subject came amiss, teeming with intellectual energy, distinguished for his learning, but never cumbered by it, the greatest scholastic of our Presbyterian Church, and yet we are told, the plain and faithful preacher, the fieriest of Church leaders and the most devout of saints, equally at home among the tomes of Aquinas, and writing letters to a poor congregation. Altogether a sort of intellectual, theological, religious prodigy!' (Theology and Theologians of Scotland 1560-1750, p. 13).

Men graced with Rutherford's abilities, intellect and faith come but once or twice a millennium. Augustine, Calvin and Gillespie are others of this class.

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