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Letters of Samuel Rutherford: With a Sketch of His Life and Biographical Notices of His Correspondents is unavailable, but you can change that!

Andrew Bonar offers a biographical sketch of Samuel Rutherford’s life and a compilation of his correspondences. He includes biographical and historical information to provide context for each letter and appends a glossary of Scottish words and expressions to ease reading. More than 350 letters, many of which were written during Rutherford’s exile in Aberdeen, offer indispensable insight into the...

Immanuel’s land.” The same afternoon he said, “I shall sleep in Christ; and when I awake, I shall be satisfied with His likeness. O for arms to embrace Him!” Then he cried aloud, “O for a well-tuned harp!” This last expression he used more than once, as if already stretching out his hand to get his golden harp, and join the redeemed in their new song. He also said on another occasion, “I hear Him saying to me, ‘Come up hither.’ ” His little daughter Agnes (the only survivor of six children), eleven
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